Cingulina brazieri

Cingulina brazieri
Drawing of a shell of Cingulina brazieri
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
Superfamily: Pyramidelloidea
Family: Pyramidellidae
Genus: Cingulina
Species: C. brazieri
Binomial name
Cingulina brazieri
Angas, 1877 [1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Eulimella tricincta Tate, 1898
  • Terebra hedleyi Tate, 1901
  • Stylifer brazieri Angas, 1877

Cingulina brazieri is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.[2]

Description

The white shell is smooth, pellucid, and polished. Its length measures 4 mm. The teleoconch contains six whorls that are flattened just below the suture, which is finely, callously margined. The apex is styliform.[3]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the coasts of New South Wales, Australia, mainly throughout deep areas east of the Sydney Harbour.

References

  1. ↑ Angas. Zool. Proc., t. 5, f. 5, 1877,
  2. 1 2 OBIS: Cingulina brazieri, Angas, 1877; retrieved: 15 January 2012
  3. ↑ G.W. Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VIII, p. 291; 1889 (described as Stylifer brazieri)
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