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Anacithara conata

species of mollusc

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ9612802 ↗
Source-derived summary

Anacithara conata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Horaiclavidae.

Description

(Original description) The shell is shorter and broader than Anacithara naufraga (Hedley, 1909). Its color is pale brown with a chocolate peripheral band.

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off Queensland.

References

External links

Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213–359, pls 42–56

Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.

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The public source identifies “Anacithara conata” as species of mollusc. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Anacithara, conata and species.

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This entry incorporates text from “Anacithara conata” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.