| Cythara paucicostata | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Mangeliidae |
| Genus: | Cythara |
| Species: | C. paucicostata |
| Binomial name | |
| Cythara paucicostata (Pease, W.H., 1867) | |
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Cythara paucicostata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.
This species is considered a nomen dubium.
Description
The length of the shell attains 7 mm, its diameter 3 mm.
(Original description) The wholly white shell has an oblong, ovate shape. The spire is rather short, turreted and acute. The whorls are angulated at the sutures, longitudinally ribbed. There are 7 ribs, very prominent, compressed, running into the sutures. The interstices are concave, finely, regularly and closely striate transversely. The sutures are deep.
Distribution
This marine species occurs off Tahiti and Polynesia.
References
- "Cythara paucicostata". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
- Pease, W. H., 1867. Description of marine gasteropodae inhabiting Polynesia. American Journal of Conchology 3(3): 211–222, pl. 15