Eucithara conohelicoides
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| taxon =Eucithara conohelicoides
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| image_caption = Shell of Eucithara conohelicoides
| authority = (Reeve, 1846)
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- Cithara onager (Souverbie, S.M., 1875)
- Eucithara onager (S.M. Souverbie, 1875)
- Mangelia conohelicoides Reeve, 1846 (original combination)
- Pleurotoma (Cithara) onager Souverbie, 1875
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Eucithara conohelicoides is a small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.WoRMS (2009). Eucithara conohelicoides. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433708 on 2017-05-03
Description
The length of the shell attains 13 mm.
The shell is longitudinally many ridged, transversely striate. Its color is yellowish white, with sometimes a large orange-brown blotch on the back of the body-whorl.[https://archive.org/details/manualconch06tryorich G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences]
Distribution
This marine species occurs off the Philippines and off Queensland, Australia.
References
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- 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.
- Souverbie, M. (1875) Descriptions d’espèces nouvelles de l’Archipel Calédonien. Journal de Conchyliologie, 23, 282–296. page(s): 286, pl. 13 fig. 4
- Cernohorsky, W.O. 1978. Tropical Pacific Marine Shells. Sydney : Pacific Publications 352 pp., 68 pls.
External links
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- [http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2004f/z00682f.pdf Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.]
- {{Gastropods.com|key=8|id=19108|title=Eucithara conohelicoides|access-date=16 January 2019}}
- [https://science.mnhn.fr/institution/mnhn/collection/im/item/2007-42591?listIndex=30&listCount=192 MNHN, Paris: Eucithara conohelicoides]
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