Anacithara ione
| Anacithara ione | |
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| Original image of a shell of Anacithara ione | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Horaiclavidae |
| Genus: | Anacithara |
| Species: | A. ione |
| Binomial name | |
| Anacithara ione (Melvill & Standen, 1896) | |
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Anacithara ione is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Horaiclavidae.[1]
Description
[edit]A chaste pale violet species, with occasional brown dorsal shading. Sometimes, indeed, the ground colour is pale-brown or ochre, while other specimens are pure white The length of the small shell attains 5 mm, its diameter 3 mm. The shell has a thickened fusiform build. It is longitudinally thickly costate, the ribs few in number. The shell contains seven or eight whorls, slightly ventricose, uniformly spirally lirate. The interstices when viewed with a lens are beautifully decussate. The aperture is wide. The outer lip is thickened, transversely striate, as are the whorls. The columellar margin is simple. The short siphonal canal is wide.[2]
Distribution
[edit]This marine species occurs off the Loyalty Islands.
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