Gingicithara pessulata
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| image_caption = Drawing of a shell of Gingicithara pessulata
| authority =(Reeve, 1846)
| synonyms =
- Mangelia pessulata Reeve, 1846 (original combination)
- Rhaphitoma [sic] pessulata; Boettger, 1905
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Gingicithara pessulata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.WoRMS (2009). Gingicithara pessulata (Reeve, 1846). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433885 on 2017-06-18
Description
The shell of the adult snail attains 11 mm.
The whorls are not shouldered and rather flat They are rather numerously flexuously longitudinally ribbed. The interstices show revolving striae. The shell is whitish.[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] (described as Mangilia pessulata)
Distribution
This marine species occurs off the Philippines.
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.
External links
- [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://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]
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Category:Gastropods described in 1846
Category:Marine molluscs of Oceania
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