Cythara paucicostata
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Mangeliidae |
| Genus: | Cythara |
| Species: | C. paucicostata
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| Cythara paucicostata (Pease, W.H., 1867)
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Cythara paucicostata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
This species is considered a nomen dubium.
Description
The length of the shell attains 7 mm, its diameter 3 mm.
(Original description) The wholly white shell has an oblong, ovate shape. The spire is rather short, turreted and acute. The whorls are angulated at the sutures, longitudinally ribbed. There are 7 ribs, very prominent, compressed, running into the sutures. The interstices are concave, finely, regularly and closely striate transversely. The sutures are deep.[2]
Distribution
This marine species occurs off Tahiti and Polynesia.
References
- ^ "Cythara paucicostata". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
- ^ Pease, W. H., 1867. Description of marine gasteropodae inhabiting Polynesia. American Journal of Conchology 3(3): 211–222, pl. 15