Citharomangelia boakei

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

Citharomangelia boakei
Image of a shell of Citharomangelia boakei
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Citharomangelia
Species:
C. boakei
Binomial name
Citharomangelia boakei
(Nevill & Nevill, 1869)
Synonyms[1]
  • Citharomangelia bicinctula Nevill, G. & H. Nevill, 1871
  • Mangilia bicinctula Nevill & Nevill, 1871 (synonymised by G.W. Tryon)
  • Marita boakei Trew, 1991
  • Pleurotoma (Mangelia) boakei Nevill & Nevill, 1869 (original combination)

Description

The length of the shell attains 12 mm.

The shell closely resembles Citharomangelia africana (G. B. Sowerby III, 1903), but it is smaller and with more evenly convex whorls. Furthermore, the 11 – 12 axial ribs are not arcuate below the suture. The spire is higher than in Citharomangelia richardi (Crosse, 1869). The fine spiral striae are distinct. The columella shows traces of transverse plicae. The outer lip is denticulate with 13 denticles.[2]

The whorls are narrowly round-shouldered at the top. The longitudinal plicae are close, small, rather straight. There are no revolving striae. The color is pinkish white, shining, with a subsutural interrupted chestnut band, and another about the top of the aperture. The lower half of the body whorl is pale chestnut. The interior is two-banded with chestnut. The outer lip is thickened, internally minutely crenulated.[3]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Sri Lanka.

References
  1. Traits (2009). Citharomangelia boakei (Nevill & Nevill, 1869). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433214 on 2017-04-08
  2. 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
  3. G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences
  • Nevill, G. & Nevill, H. 1869. Description of a new genus and five new species of marine univalves from the Southern Province, Ceylon. 1. Ceylon Br. Asiat. Soc. 1867–70: 141–142.
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