Hemicythara octangulata
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| Hemicythara octangulata | |
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| Original image of a shell of Hemicythara octangulata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Mangeliidae |
| Genus: | Hemicythara |
| Species: | H. octangulata |
| Binomial name | |
| Hemicythara octangulata (Dunker, 1860) | |
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Hemicythara octangulata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
The length of the shell attains 10 mm, its diameter 4 mm.
The solid, subfusiform shell is ovately oblong and obtusely shouldered, strongly longitudinally ribbed (eight in the body whorl) and transversely substriate. The shell contains six whorls with a distinct suture. The aperture is narrow. The outer lip is slightly incrassate. The siphonal canal is very short. The columella is almost upright. The color of the shell is yellowish white, with an interrupted chestnut band.[2][3]
