Eucithara conohelicoides is a small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.WoRMS (2009). Eucithara conohelicoides. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433708 on 2017-05-03
Description The length of the shell attains 13 mm.
The shell is longitudinally many ridged, transversely striate. Its color is yellowish white, with sometimes a large orange-brown blotch on the back of the body-whorl.G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences
Distribution This marine species occurs off the Philippines and off Queensland, Australia.
References
Reeve, L.A. 1846. Monograph of the genus Mangelia. pls 1–8 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 3. Souverbie, M. (1875) Descriptions d’espèces nouvelles de l’Archipel Calédonien. Journal de Conchyliologie, 23, 282–296. page(s): 286, pl. 13 fig. 4 Cernohorsky, W.O. 1978. Tropical Pacific Marine Shells. Sydney : Pacific Publications 352 pp., 68 pls.
External links
Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.
MNHN, Paris: Eucithara conohelicoides