Eucithara celebensis

Short description: Species of gastropod

Eucithara celebensis

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

E. celebensis

Binomial name
Eucithara celebensis

(Hinds in Reeve, 1846)

Synonyms

* Cithara eupoecila Hervier, 1897
* Cythara optabilis Sowerby, 1907
* Cythara pessulata Brazier, 1876
* Mangelia celebensis Hinds, 1843 (original combination)
* Mangilia psalterium Melvill & Standen, 1896

Eucithara celebensis 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 Philippines and Queensland, Australia.

## Description

The length of the shell varies between 6 mm and 15 mm.

The shell is smooth. It is plicately ribbed with the ribs rather distant. Its color is light yellowish and brown banded.[2]

## References

1. ↑ WoRMS (2009). Eucithara celebensis. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433701 on 2017-05-15
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
* Brazier, J. 1876. A list of the Pleurotomidae collected during the Chevert Expedition, with the description of the new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1: 151-162
* Melvill, J.C. & Standen, R. 1896. Notes on a collection of shells from Lifu and Uvea, Loyalty Islands, formed by the Rev. James and Mrs. Hadfield, with list of species. Part II. Journal of Conchology 8(9): 273-315, pls 9-11
* Hervier, J. 1897. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de Mollusques provenant de l'Archipel de la Nouvelle Calédonie. Journal de Conchyliologie 45: 47-69, pls 2-3
* Sowerby, G.B III. 1907. Descriptions of new Marine Mollusca from New Caledonia, etc. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 7(5): 299-303

## External links

* Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295
* "Eucithara celebensis" (in en). Gastropods.com. http://www.gastropods.com/3/Shell_9393.shtml.
* Chen-Kwoh Chang, Small Turrids of Taiwan, Hawaiian Shell News, June 1 2001

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