Eucithara stromboides
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| taxon =Eucithara stromboides
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| image_caption = Apertural view of a shell of Eucithara stromboides
| authority = (Reeve, 1846)
| synonyms =
- Cithara delaaouriana Crosse, 1869
- Cithara stromboides (Reeve, 1846)
- Mangelia stromboides Reeve, 1846 (original combination)
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Eucithara stromboides is a small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.WoRMS (2009). Eucithara stromboides (Reeve, 1846). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215584 on 2017-05-07
Kilburn (1992) listed this as a possible synonym of Eucithara fusiformis (Reeve, 1846) and designated a lectotype.[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]
Description
The length of the shell attains 14 mm.
The interstices of the ribs show fine revolving striae. The color of the shell is yellowish white.[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 Guam, Queensland (Australia), the New Hebrides and the Red Sea and the Mascarene Basin.
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.
- Crosse, H. 1869. Diagnoses Molluscorum Novae Caledoniae. Journal de Conchyliologie 17: 177-180
- Fischer, P. 1883. Manuel de Conchyliologie et de Paléontologie Conchyliologique ou histoire naturelle des mollusques vivant et fossiles. Paris : F. Savy Vol. 6 513-608 pp.
- Boettger, O. 1895. Die marinen Mollusken der Philippinen. IV. Die Pleurotomiden. Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozooligischen Gesellschaft 27(1-2, 3-4): 1-20, 41-63
- Maes, V.O. 1967. The littoral marine mollusks of Cocos-Keeling Islands (Indian Ocean). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 119: 93-217
- [https://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/1171/report.pdf H. S. Ladd. 1982. Cenozoic fossil mollusks from Western Pacific Islands; Gastropods (Volutidae through Terebridae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1171:1-100] {{PD-notice}}
- Drivas, J.; Jay, M. (1987). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'Île Maurice. Collection Les Beautés de la Nature. Delachaux et Niestlé: Neuchâtel. {{ISBN|2-603-00654-1}}. 159 pp.
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=5|id=10915|title=Eucithara stromboides|access-date=16 January 2019}}
- [https://archive.org/details/revisionofaustri00hedl Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213-359, pls 42-56]
- [http://www.denix.osd.mil/denix/crid/Coral_Reef_Iniative_Database/Guam_files/Smith,%202003.pdf Smith, Barry D. "Prosobranch gastropods of Guam." Micronesica 35.36 (2003): 244-270.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170511175708/https://www.denix.osd.mil/denix/crid/Coral_Reef_Iniative_Database/Guam_files/Smith,%202003.pdf |date=2017-05-11 }}
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