Anacithara nanisca is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Horaiclavidae.[1]
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| Original images of a shell of Anacithara nanisca | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Horaiclavidae |
| Genus: | Anacithara |
| Species: | A. nanisca
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| Binomial name | |
| Anacithara nanisca (Hervier, 1897)
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Mangilia nanisca Hervier, 1897 | |
R.N. Kilburn disputed in 1994 that Mangilia nanisca should belong to the genus Anacithara, as it shows apertural features that are unknown in Anacithara, such as two median denticles in the inner lip and a posterior nodule on the outer lip.[2]
Description
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Distribution
editThis marine species occurs off Queensland, Australia and off the Loyalty Islands
References
edit- ^ a b WoRMS (2015). WoRMS (2015). Anacithara nanisca (Hervier, 1897). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=432955 on 2016-12-19
- ^ Kilburn, R. N. "Turridae [sl](Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 7. Subfamily Crassispirinae, section 2." Annals of the Natal Museum 35 (1994): 177-228.
- Hervier, J. 1897. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de Mollusques provenant de l'Archipel de la Nouvelle Calédonie. Journal de Conchyliologie 45: 47–69, pls 2-3
- Bouge & Dautzenberg, Journal de Conchyliologie., Ixi., 1913 (1914), p. 153.
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