''Leiocithara potti'' is a species of

sea snail Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...

, a marine

gastropod Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...

mollusk Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...

in the

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Mangeliidae Mangeliidae is a monophyletic family of small to medium-sized, predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea. Bouchet, P. (2011). Mangeliidae P. Fischer, 1883. In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Regis ...

.Bouchet, P. (2017). Leiocithara potti (Sturany, 1900). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=955638 on 2017-08-04

Description

The length of the shell attains 12.4 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the

Red Sea The Red Sea is a sea inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia. Its connection to the ocean is in the south, through the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait and the Gulf of Aden. To its north lie the Sinai Peninsula, the Gulf of Aqaba, and th ...

and off

Eritrea Eritrea, officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa, with its capital and largest city being Asmara. It is bordered by Ethiopia in the Eritrea–Ethiopia border, south, Sudan in the west, and Dj ...

References

* Sturany, R. "Diagnosen neuer Gastropoden aus dem Rothen Meere." Anzeiger der mathematisch-naturwissenschaftlichen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissen schaften, Wien 37 (1900): 197–201. * Sturany R (1903) ''Expeditionen S.M. Schiff "Pola" in das Rothe Meer, nördliche und südliche Hälfte, 1895/96 – 1897/98.'' Zoologische Ergebnisse XXIII. Gastropoden des Rothen Meeres. Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe 74: 210–283.
Albano P.G., Bakker P.A.J., Janssen R. & Eschner A. (2017). An illustrated catalogue of Rudolf Sturany’s type specimens in the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Austria (NHMW): Red Sea gastropods. Zoosystematics and Evolution. 93(1): 45-94

External links

Tucker, J.K. 2004 ''Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)''. Zootaxa 682:1-1295.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Leiocithara potti Endemic fauna of Eritrea

potti Etymology ''Potti'' is a Tamil word meaning "deep respect for someone" and is used for Tulu-Malayali Brahmins. History At present, Pottis are often identified as Embrandiris or Tulu Brahmin immigrants. However, there were three classes of Pot ...

Gastropods described in 1900