Leiocithara apollinea

Leiocithara apollinea
	Original image of a shell of Leiocithara apollinea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Leiocithara
Species:	L. apollinea
Binomial name
	Leiocithara apollinea; (Melvill, 1904)
Synonyms
	Bela apollinea (Melvill, 1904); Mangilia apollinea Melvill, 1904 (original combination);

Leiocithara apollinea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.^[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 5 mm, its diameter 1.75 mm.

This white shell is a scalate Leiocithara .It has an ovate fusiform shape and contains 5 whorls. It is principally conspicuous for its thickened longitudinal ribs, 9–10 in number on the body whorl. The interstices are quite smooth. One spiral keel alone, a little below the sutures, crosses the ribs at right angles, and at the point of junction bears a beaded point. The aperture is oblong and becomes narrower at its base. The outer lip is incrassate.^[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Gulf of Oman.

References

^ ^a ^b WoRMS (2009). Leiocithara apollinea (Melvill, 1904). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=434188 on 2017-08-03
^ J.C. Melvill, descriptions of twenty-three species of Gastropoda from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and Arabian Sea, dredged by Mr. F. W. Townsend, of the Indo-European Telegraph Service, in 1903.." Journal of Molluscan Studies 6.6 (1904) This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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

External links

Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.

[WoRMS-1] WoRMS (2009). Leiocithara apollinea (Melvill, 1904). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=434188 on 2017-08-03

[2] J.C. Melvill, descriptions of twenty-three species of Gastropoda from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and Arabian Sea, dredged by Mr. F. W. Townsend, of the Indo-European Telegraph Service, in 1903.." Journal of Molluscan Studies 6.6 (1904) This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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