Bactrocythara labiosa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.

Description

The length of the shell attains 7 mm.

Bactrocythara labiosa

The shell is obliquely longitudinally costate, transversely sulcate. The sulci are indistinct on the ribs. The whorls are angulated above . The color of the shell is white, with a pellucid zone below the suture.

Bactrocythara labiosa

Distribution

This species is found in the Atlantic Ocean off the Cape Verdes, West Africa, Ghana, Angola.

Bactrocythara labiosa

References

Rolán E., 2005. Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda.

External links

Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273–308 Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.

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Molluscs of the Atlantic Ocean

Gastropods of Cape Verde

Molluscs of Angola

Invertebrates of West Africa