Eucithara ringens
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| taxon =Eucithara ringens
| image = Eucithara ringens 001.jpg
| image_caption = Original image of a shell of Eucithara ringens
| authority =(G. B. Sowerby III, 1893)
| synonyms =
- Cythara ringens G. B. Sowerby III, 1893 (original combination)
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Eucithara ringens is a small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.WoRMS (2009). Eucithara ringens. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433756 on 2017-05-18
Description
The length of the shell attains 6.2 mm, its diameter 2.6 mm.
This short shell with an conical shape has an acuminate apex. Its color is white. The shell contains 7 angular whorls. It is delicately sculptured with 8 longitudinally arcuate ribs (12 ribs on the penultimate whorl), latticed by fine, revolving striae (about 23 on the penultimate whorl). The suture is deeply impressed. The aperture is narrow and oblong. The columella is slightly curved and contains a white callus. The thickened outer lip contains 8 denticles, the inner lip has 12 plicae.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/97156#page/617/mode/1up Sowerby, G.B. (3rd) 1893. Descriptions of fifteen new species of shells of the family Pleurotomidae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1893: 487-492]
Distribution
This marine species occurs off Hong Kong
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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]
- [http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2009/f/z02189p218f.pdf Petit, R. E. (2009). George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa. 2189: 1–218]
- [http://journals.co.za/docserver/fulltext/annals/33/2/282.pdf?expires=1491662733&id=id&accname=guest&checksum=7F351EDA98AA96D75296767E835A8EEF 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]
- {{Gastropods.com|key=3|id=19113|title=Eucithara ringens|access-date=16 January 2019}}
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