Eucithara isseli is a small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.WoRMS (2009). Eucithara isseli (Nevill & Nevill, 1875). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433734 on 2017-05-16
Distribution This marine species is found in the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; off Sri Lanka; the Philippines and the Loyalty Islands.
Description The length of the shell varies between 8 mm and 12 mm.
The color of the shell is white, with two narrow, interrupted orange bands, one of which reappears on the spire.G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences
References
Nevill, G. & Nevill, H. 1875. Descriptions of nine marine Mollusca from the Indian Ocean. 1. Asiatic Soc. Bengal [n.s.] 44(2): 8~104, pis 7,8. Bouge, L.J. & Dautzenberg, P.L. 1914. Les Pleurotomides de la Nouvelle-Caledonie et de ses dependances. Journal de Conchyliologie 61: 123-214
External links Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295