| Leiocithara apollinea | |
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| Original image of a shell of Leiocithara apollinea | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Mangeliidae |
| Genus: | Leiocithara |
| Species: | L. apollinea
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| Binomial name | |
| Leiocithara apollinea (Melvill, 1904)
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Leiocithara apollinea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
Description
The length of the shell attains 5 mm, its diameter 1.75 mm.
This white shell is a scalate Leiocithara .It has an ovate fusiform shape and contains 5 whorls. It is principally conspicuous for its thickened longitudinal ribs, 9–10 in number on the body whorl. The interstices are quite smooth. One spiral keel alone, a little below the sutures, crosses the ribs at right angles, and at the point of junction bears a beaded point. The aperture is oblong and becomes narrower at its base. The outer lip is incrassate.[2]
Distribution
This species occurs in the Gulf of Oman.
References
- ^ a b WoRMS (2009). Leiocithara apollinea (Melvill, 1904). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=434188 on 2017-08-03
- ^ J.C. Melvill, descriptions of twenty-three species of Gastropoda from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and Arabian Sea, dredged by Mr. F. W. Townsend, of the Indo-European Telegraph Service, in 1903.." Journal of Molluscan Studies 6.6 (1904)
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