Eucithara cinnamomea

Short description: Species of gastropod

Eucithara cinnamomea

Image of a shell of Eucithara cinnamomea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Mollusca
Class:  | Gastropoda
Subclass:  | Caenogastropoda
Order:  | Neogastropoda
Superfamily:  | Conoidea
Family:  | Mangeliidae
Genus:  | Eucithara
Species:  |

E. cinnamomea

Binomial name
Eucithara cinnamomea

(Hinds, 1843)

Synonyms

Mangelia cinnamomea Hinds, 1843 (original combination)

Eucithara cinnamomea is a small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]

## Contents

* 1 Distribution
* 2 Description
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Distribution

This marine species is found off the Strait of Malacca, the Macassar Strait and Northern New Guinea.

## Description

The length of the shell attains 13 mm.

The shell is shouldered, plicately ribbed, transversely obsoletely striated. It is cinnamon-colored, narrowly white-banded.[2]

## References

1. ↑ WoRMS (2009). Eucithara cinnamomea (Hinds, 1843). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433703 on 2017-05-16
2. ↑ G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences

* Hinds, R.B. 1843. Description of new shells from the collection of Captain Belcher. Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 1 11: 16-21, 36-46, 255-257

## External links

* Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295
* "Eucithara cinnamomea cinnamomea" (in en). Gastropods.com. http://www.gastropods.com/6/Shell_19066.shtml.

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