Eucithara souverbiei facts for kids
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Eucithara souverbiei is a small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.
Description
The length of the shell attains 7 mm.
The shell is minutely tuberculate at the shoulder-angle, and covered by minute revolving striae. Its color is whitish, with a large dorsal brownish spot or stain. It is also characterized by small, wavy spiral striae that are little protruding.
Distribution
This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off Queensland; it was also found off the Loyalty Islands and the Cocos-Keeling Islands.
- Souverbie, M. (1875) Descriptions d’espèces nouvelles de l’Archipel Calédonien. Journal de Conchyliologie, 23, 282–296. page(s): 288, pl. 13 fig. 5
- Cernohorsky, W.O. 1978. Tropical Pacific Marine Shells. Sydney : Pacific Publications 352 pp., 68 pls.
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