Anacithara querna
| Anacithara querna | |
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| Original image of a shell of Anacithara querna | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Horaiclavidae |
| Genus: | Anacithara |
| Species: | A. querna
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| Binomial name | |
| Anacithara querna (Melvill, 1910)
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Mangilia querna Melvill, 1910 (original combination) | |
Anacithara querna is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Horaiclavidae. [1]
Description
(Original description) The length of the shell attains 5.5 mm, its diameter 2 mm. A thickened pale brown or straw-coloured shell with few ribs, the number only extending to nine on the body whorl. Altogether it is seven-whorled, two of these being apical. The outer lip is thickened. No trace of sinus is perceptible. The columella is straight. The siphonal canal is very short.[2]
Distribution
This marine species occurs off Iran
References
- ^ a b Anacithara querna (Melvill, 1910). 5 July 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- ^ Melvill, J.C. (1910). "Descriptions of Twenty-nine Species of Marine Mollusca from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and North Arabian Sea". The Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Including Zoology, Botany, and Geology. 8th ser. vol. VI
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- Kilburn R.N. (1994). Turridae (s.l.) (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 7. Subfamily Crassispirinae, section 2. Annals of the Natal Museum. 35: 177-228.
External links
- Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)". Zootaxa. 682:1–1295.