Anacithara dulcinea explained

Anacithara dulcinea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Horaiclavidae.^[1]

Description

The length of the ovate, dirty white shell attains 6 mm, its diameter 2.5 mm. A white, fusiform, very delicately-striated shell, with six swollen whorls, impressed at the sutures, obscurely longitudinally ribbed. The aperture is oblong. The outer lip is effuse. Under a lens the surface is seen to be very finely besprinkled with minute dust-like brown spots.^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Lifu, the Loyalty Islands.

External links

• Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.

Notes and References

1. WoRMS (2015). Anacithara dulcinea (Melvill & Standen, 1895). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=432944 on 2016-12-21
2. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/44144#page/49/mode/1up Melvill & Standen (1895), Catalogue of the Hadfield collection of shells from the Lifu and Uvea, Loyalty Islands; Manchester Museum (University of Manchester)