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Mangelia callicredemna

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Mangelia callicredemna
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Mangelia
Species:
M. callicredemna
Binomial name
Mangelia callicredemna
J.C. Melvill, 1917

Mangelia callicredemna is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Mangeliidae.[1]

Description

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The length of the shell attains 4.5 mm, its diameter 2 mm.

The white, minute shell has an ovate-fusiform shape. It contains 8 whorls, of which two vitreous whorls in the protoconch. The oblique aperture is ovate. The outer lip is thin. The columellar margin is sinuate. The siphonal canal is wide but little produced.

Akin to Ceritoturris pupiformis E.A. Smith, 1884., this small novelty occurred sparsely with it. It differs in several particulars, notably in form, being far less attenuate and cylindrical, the median whorls are all strongly uniangulate, and the body whiorl is not so lengthened, proportionately, as is that of C. pupiformis.[1]

Distribution

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This marine species occurs in the Gulf of Oman.

References

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  • Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.
  • "Mangelia callicredemna". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.