Citharomangelia planilabroides explained

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

Description

The length of the shell attains 20 mm.

The shell is fusiform, smooth, narrowly, slopingly shouldered; brown with a superior white zone.^[2]

The species has been renamed by G.W. Tryon as Mangilia planilabroides as it had been already described in 1846 by L.A. Reeve as Mangilia planilabrum, a name already used by him for Mangilia planilabrum described as Pleurotoma planilabrum Reeve, 1843

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Philippines

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
• MNHN, Paris: Citharomangelia planilabroides

Notes and References

1. WoRMS (2009). Citharomangelia planilabroides (Tryon, 1884). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433218 on 2017-04-10
2. https://archive.org/details/manualconch06tryorich G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences