Cythara paucicostata

Cythara paucicostata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.^[1]

Cythara paucicostata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Cythara
Species:	C. paucicostata
Binomial name
Cythara paucicostata (Pease, W.H., 1867)
Synonyms
Cithara paucicostata Pease W.H., 1867 (original combination) Mangilia paucicostata Pease, 1867

This species is considered a nomen dubium.

Description

The length of the shell attains 7 mm, its diameter 3 mm.

(Original description) The wholly white shell has an oblong, ovate shape. The spire is rather short, turreted and acute. The whorls are angulated at the sutures, longitudinally ribbed. There are 7 ribs, very prominent, compressed, running into the sutures. The interstices are concave, finely, regularly and closely striate transversely. The sutures are deep.^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Tahiti and Polynesia.