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Eucithara vittata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Eucithara
Species:	E. vittata
Binomial name
Eucithara vittata (Hinds, 1843)
Synonyms
Cythara abyssicola (Reeve, 1846) Cythara biclathrata S.M. Souverbie, 1872 Daphnella (Cythara) abyssicola (Reeve, 1846) Daphnella abyssicola (Reeve, 1846) Eucithara abyssicola (Reeve, 1846) Eucithara biclathrata S.M. Souverbie in S.M. Souverbie & R.P. Montrouzier, 1872 Eucithara rubrocincta E.A. Smith, 1882 Glyphostoma rubrocincta Smith, E.A., 1882 Mangelia abyssicola Reeve, 1846 Mangelia vittata Hinds, 1843 (original combination) Mangilia abyssicola (Reeve, 1846) Mangilia (Cythara) vittata (Reeve, 1846) Pleurotoma (Cithara) biclathrata Souverbie, 1872 (dubious synonym) Pleurotoma exquisita Smith, 1882 Raphitoma exquisita (E.A. Smith, 1882). (dubious synonym - possibly a Cytharopsis)

Eucithara vittata is a small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.

Description

The shell size varies between 5 mm and 15 mm.

Distribution

This marine genus occurs off Australia (Queensland and Western Australia), off the Philippines, Irian Jaya and Fiji

References

1. ^ WoRMS (2009). Eucithara vittata. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433773 on 2017-04-28

• Reeve, L.A. 1846. Monograph of the genus Mangelia. pls 1-8 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 3.
• Souverbie, S.M. & Montrouzier, R.P. 1872. Diagnoses de Mollusques inedits provenant de la Nouvelle-Caledonie. Journal de Conchyliologie 20: 361-365
• Smith, E.A. (1877). "Diagnoses of new species of Pleurotomidae in the British Museum". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 4 (19): 488–501.
• Odhner, N.H. 1917. Results of Dr E. Mjöbergs Swedish scientific expeditions to Australia. 1910-1913, pt XVII, Mollusca. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm 52(16): 1-115 pls 1-3
• Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian Shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs.
• Kilburn R.N. 1992. Turridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 6. Subfamily Mangeliinae, section 1. Annals of the Natal Museum, 33: 461–575
• Cernohorsky, W.O. 1978. Tropical Pacific Marine Shells. Sydney : Pacific Publications 352 pp., 68 pls.
• Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.
• "Eucithara vittata". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.

• Eucithara
• Gastropods described in 1843