Eucithara turricula
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| Eucithara turricula | |
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| Shell of Eucithara turricula (museum specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Mangeliidae |
| Genus: | Eucithara |
| Species: | E. turricula |
| Binomial name | |
| Eucithara turricula (Reeve, 1846) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Eucithara turricula is a small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
The length of the shell attains 12.5 mm; its diameter 4.7 mm.
The whorls are rather flat The sutures are deep. The shoulder is very narrow. The color of the shell is whitish, sometimes with a central brown band, with fine brown revolving lines, invisible except with a lens.[2]
