| Bactrocythara candeana | |
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| Shell of Bactrocythara candeana (specimen at the Natural History Museum, London) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Mangeliidae |
| Genus: | Bactrocythara |
| Species: | B. candeana |
| Binomial name | |
| Bactrocythara candeana (d'Orbigny, 1847) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Clathurella candeana d'Orbigny, 1847 | |
Bactrocythara candeana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.
Description
The length of the shell attains 4 mm.
The spire of the whitish shell is longitudinally plicate. The body whorl lacks sculpture except a few revolving lines at the base.
Distribution
This marine species occurs off Guadeloupe; Martinique; on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
References
- ^ Rosenberg, G. (2015). Bactrocythara candeana (d'Orbigny, 1847). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=532426 on 2017-03-11
- G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences
External links
- Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.
- Image of a shell of Bactrocythara candeana
- Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273-308.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Bactrocythara candeana | |
| Pleurotoma candeana | |