''Eucithara angela'' is a small

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 family

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 ...

.WoRMS (2009). Eucithara angela (Adams & Angas, 1864). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433685 on 2017-04-30

Description

The length of the ovate-fusiform shell varies between 10 mm and 16 mm. The color of the shell is yellowish white, chocolate-tinted towards the base. The narrow

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is stained with violet in front.G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences
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Distribution

This marine species occurs off

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) and off

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References

Adams, A. & Angas, G.F. 1864. ''Descriptions of new species from Australian seas, in the collection of George French Angas''; Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1863(III): 418-428, pl. xxxvii
* Crosse, H. 1873. ''Diagnoses molluscorum novorum''. Journal de Conchyliologie 21: 284-285 * Bouge, L.J. & Dautzenberg, P.L. 1914. ''Les Pleurotomides de la Nouvelle-Caledonie et de ses dependances.'' Journal de Conchyliologie 61: 123-214

External links

Hedley, C. 1922. ''A revision of the Australian Turridae.'' Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213-359, pls 42-56

Tucker, J.K. 2004 ''Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)''. Zootaxa 682:1-1295.
* {{Taxonbar, from=Q10277987 angela Gastropods described in 1864