Citharomangelia galigensis explained

Citharomangelia galigensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.^[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 14 mm, its diameter 4 mm.

The shell is similar to Citharomangelia africana (G. B. Sowerby III, 1903) but the penultimate whorl only contains 7 axial ribs. The spiral sculpture is even more ill-defined.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Persian Gulf off Galig Island.

References

• Melvill J.C. 1899. Notes on the Mollusca of the Arabian Sea, Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, mostly dredged by Mr F. W. Townsend, with descriptions of twenty-seven species. ; The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, vol. 4, s. 7; London, 1899

External links

• Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.
• Kilburn R.N. 1992. Turridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 6. Subfamily Mangeliinae, section 1. Annals of the Natal Museum, 33: 461–575

Notes and References

1. WoRMS (2009). Citharomangelia galigensis (Melvill, 1899). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433217 on 2017-04-09