Anacithara ione is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Horaiclavidae.
Description A chaste pale violet species, with occasional brown dorsal shading. Sometimes, indeed, the ground colour is pale-brown or ochre, while other specimens are pure white The length of the small shell attains 5 mm, its diameter 3 mm. The shell has a thickened fusiform build. It is longitudinally thickly costate, the ribs few in number. The shell contains seven or eight whorls, slightly ventricose, uniformly spirally lirate. The interstices when viewed with a lens are beautifully decussate. The aperture is wide. The outer lip is thickened, transversely striate, as are the whorls. The columellar margin is simple. The short siphonal canal is wide.Melvill & Standen (1897), Catalogue of the Hadfield collection of shells from the Lifu and Uvea, Loyalty Islands Parts ii & III
Distribution This marine species occurs off the Loyalty Islands.
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Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.