Citharomangelia pellucida

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| taxon =Citharomangelia pellucida

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| image_caption = Drawing of Citharomangelia pellucida

| authority = (Reeve, 1846)

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Clathromangelia pellucida (Reeve, 1846)
Cythara pellucida (Reeve, 1846)
Eucithara pellucida (Reeve, 1846)
Mangelia pellucida Reeve, 1846
Mangilia pellucida Reeve, 1846

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Citharomangelia pellucida is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.Gofas, S. (2015). Citharomangelia pellucida (Reeve, 1846). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=556043 on 2016-04-11

Description

The ovate shell is attenuated at both ends, smooth, transparent, shining, longitudinally closely ribbed. The color of the shell is whitish, brown at the

base, sometimes with three narrow, interrupted bands.George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI? p. 266; 1884 (described as Mangilia pellucida)

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Madagascar, the Philippines and off Queensland, Australia.

References

Reeve, L.A. 1846. Monograph of the genus Mangelia. pls 1–8 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 3.
Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213–359, pls 42-56
Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Mollusques testacés marins de Madagascar. Faune des Colonies Francaises, Tome III
Kilburn R.N. 1992. Turridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 6. Subfamily Mangeliinae, section 1. Annals of the Natal Museum, 33: 461–575.

External links

[https://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2004f/z00682f.pdf Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295].

pellucida

Category:Gastropods described in 1846