Citharomangelia planilabroides is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.

Description

The length of the shell attains 20 mm.

Citharomangelia planilabroides

The shell is fusiform, smooth, narrowly, slopingly shouldered; brown with a superior white zone.

Citharomangelia planilabroides

The species has been renamed by G.W. Tryon as Mangilia planilabroides as it had been already described in 1846 by L.A. Reeve as Mangilia planilabrum, a name already used by him for Mangilia planilabrum described as Pleurotoma planilabrum Reeve, 1843

Citharomangelia planilabroides

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Philippines

References

External links

Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295. 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 MNHN, Paris: Citharomangelia planilabroides

planilabroides

Gastropods described in 1884