Saccharoturris monocingulata

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

Saccharoturris monocingulata
Original image of a shell of Saccharoturris monocingulata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Saccharoturris
Species:	S. monocingulata
Binomial name
Saccharoturris monocingulata (Dall, 1889)
Synonyms[1]
Glyphoturris quadrata quadrata (var.) monocingulata (Dall, 1889) Mangelia monocingulata (Dall, 1889) Mangilia monocingulata Dall, 1889 (original combination) Mangilia quadrata var. monocingulata Dall, 1889

Description

The length of the shell attains 6.8 mm.

(Original description) This species differs from Glyphoturris diminuta by having one more rib (nine in all) and in having the basal cingulum obsolete so that the prominence of the posterior nearly peripheral angulation though not enlarged is much more apparent. This is shown in the figure. Another specimen shows a further modification, in which the number of primary spirals is diminished, and those that are left are less prominent, thus making the whorls appear more rounded. Both of the specimens figured are not quite adult, and hence do not show the aperture fully formed.^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Western Florida, USA; off Barbados and off Mexico; in the Antilles off Guadeloupe