Anacithara querna

Anacithara querna
Original image of a shell of Anacithara querna
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Horaiclavidae
Genus: Anacithara
Species:
A. querna
Binomial name
Anacithara querna
(Melvill, 1910)
Synonyms[1]
  • Mangilia querna Melvill, 1910 (original combination)

Anacithara querna is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Horaiclavidae.[1]

Description

(Original description) The length of the shell attains 5.5 mm, its diameter 2 mm. A thickened pale brown or straw-coloured shell with few ribs, the number only extending to nine on the body whorl. Altogether it is seven-whorled, two of these being apical. The outer lip is thickened. No trace of sinus is perceptible. The columella is straight. The siphonal canal is very short.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Iran

References

  1. ^ a b WoRMS (2015). Anacithara querna (Melvill, 1910). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=432963 on 12 December 2016
  2. ^ Melvill, J.C. (1910). "Descriptions of Twenty-nine Species of Marine Mollusca from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and North Arabian Sea". The Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Including Zoology, Botany, and Geology. 8th ser. vol. VI