Leiocithara opalina

Leiocithara opalina
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Leiocithara
Species:	L. opalina
Binomial name
	Leiocithara opalina; (E. A. Smith, 1882)
Synonyms
	Pleurotoma (Mangilia) opalina E.A. Smith, 1882

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

Description

The length of the shell attains 8 mm, its diameter 3 mm.

The ovate-fusiform shell has a pale reddish to white color. It contains 8 whorls, of which two convex, vitreous whorls in the protoconch. The subsequent whorls are slightly concave and subangulate in their middle. The longitudinal sculpture consists of 12 slightly arcuate ribs. The spiral lirae number six to seven, forming slight nodules when crossing the axials, but number 24 on the body whorl. The narrow aperture measures about half the total length of the shell. The outer lip is without teeth and has in the middle a small reddish spot and is slightly sinuate at the top. The columella shows a parietal nodule. The siphonal canal is short and narrow. The entire surface is finely reticulated by the wavy lines of growth and spiral striations ; but these are not visible under an ordinary lens.^[2]

Distribution

The type locality is unknown.

References

^ ^a ^b Traits (2009). Leiocithara opalina (E. A. Smith, 1882). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=434194 on 2017-08-03
^ Smith, E.A. (1882) Diagnoses of new species of Pleurotomidae in the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 5, 10, 206–218 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] Traits (2009). Leiocithara opalina (E. A. Smith, 1882). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=434194 on 2017-08-03

[2] Smith, E.A. (1882) Diagnoses of new species of Pleurotomidae in the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 5, 10, 206–218 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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