Mangelia multilineolata

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

Mangelia multilineolata
Mangelia multilineolata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Mangelia
Species:	M. multilineolata
Binomial name
Mangelia multilineolata (Deshayes, 1835)
Synonyms[1]
Cythara galli Bivona-Bernardi, Ant. & And. Bivona-Bernardi, 1838 Fusus lineatus Brown, C.T., 1827 Mangelia bivonae C. Maravigna, 1840 Mangelia bivoniana C. Maravigna, 1853 Mangelia interlineata W. Kobelt, 1905 Mangelia lineatus T. Brown, 1827 Mangelia lineolata Risso, A., 1826 Mangelia pusilla A. Scacchi, 1836 Mangelia subecaudata And. Bivona-Bernardi, 1838 Mangelia (Mangiliella) multilineolata alboventrosa (f) Nordsieck, F., 1977 Mangiliella multilineolata (Deshayes, 1835) Pleurotoma bivonae Maravigna, C., 1840 Pleurotoma bivoniana Maravigna, C., 1853 Pleurotoma multilineolata G.P. Deshayes, 1835 Pleurotoma pusilla Scacchi, A., 1836 Pleurotoma subecaudata Bivona-Bernardi, Ant. & And. Bivona-Bernardi, 1838

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 4 mm and 10 mm.

The shell contains rather numerous longitudinal ribs, close together, curved white, with chestnut, revolving lines, rarely unicolored or unifasciate.^[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Mediterranean Sea and in the Atlantic Ocean off the Azores.