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Ithycythara muricoides C. B. Adams, 1850

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Neogastropoda »  family Mangeliidae »  genus Ithycythara

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Ithycythara muricoides

Author: Jan Delsing

Ithycythara muricoides

Author: Williams, P.

Description

Shell fusiform and slender: pure white, with six narrow subacute prominent ribs on each whorl, which are sinuated posteriorly on the right side, and which are continuous along the spire like a Murex; with very numerous microscopic spiral striae in the intercostal spaces; apex acute; spire with the outlines nearly rectilinear; whorls six, slightly convex, with a lightly impressed suture; last whorl gradually attenuated below into a wide canal.
Mean divergence 32°; length of spire 0.09 inch; total length 0.18 inch; breadth 0.07 inch.
Description by Clench & Turner, 1950.

Distribution

Jamaica. Caribic.
Author: Jan Delsing

Links and literature

EN Galli C.: WMSDB - Wolrdwide Mollusc Species Data Base July 10, 2013 [http://www.bagniliggia.it/WMSD/WMSDhome....] [as Ithycythara muricoides (Adams, 1850)]
Data retrieved on: 23 November 2013

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