{{Short description|Species of gastropod}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2020}} {{Speciesbox | taxon =Mangelia attenuata | image = Mangelia attenuata 001.jpg | image_caption = Shells of ''Mangelia attenuata'' | authority = ([[George Montagu (naturalist)|Montagu]], 1803) | synonyms_ref = <ref name="WoRMS" /> | synonyms = * ''Cythara attenuata'' <small> (Montagu, 1803)</small> * ''Daphnella attenuata'' <small>(Montagu, 1803)</small> * ''Mangelia striolata'' <small>[[Antoine Risso|Risso]], 1826</small> * ''Murex aciculatus'' <small>Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de, 1822</small> * ''Murex attenuatus'' <small>[[George Montagu (naturalist)|Montagu]], 1803</small> ([[basionym]]) * ''Pleurotoma villiersii'' <small>Michaud, A.L.G., 1829</small> * ''Pleurotoma gracile'' <small>Philippi, R.A., 1836</small> * ''Pleurotoma gracilis'' <small>Scacchi, A., 1836</small> * ''Pleurotoma payraudeauti'' <small>Weinkauff, H.C., 1868</small> * ''Pleurotoma valenciennesii'' <small>Maravigna, C., 1840</small> * ''Pleurotoma villiersii'' <small>Michaud, A.L.G., 1829</small> * ''Pleurotoma vulpina'' <small>Bivona-Bernardi, Ant. & And. Bivona-Bernardi, 1838</small> * ''Raphitoma payraudeauti'' <small>Weinkauff, 1868</small> | display_parents = 3 }}

'''''Mangelia attenuata''''' is a species of [[sea snail]], a marine [[gastropod]] [[mollusk]] in the [[Family (taxonomy)|family]] [[Mangeliidae]].<ref name="WoRMS">{{WRMS species|139265|''Mangelia attenuata'' ([[George Montagu (naturalist)|Montagu]], 1803)||9 August 2011}}</ref>

==Description== The shell size varies between 5&nbsp;mm and 13&nbsp;mm.

The shell has nine whorls. Each whorl contains nine ribs, narrow, flexuous, with wider interspaces, spirally slightly and finely striate. The narrow [[Aperture (mollusc)|aperture]] is long. The [[siphonal canal]] is short and broad. Its color is pale tawny, the upper part and middle of the [[body whorl]] often banded, or the lower half of the body whorl darker colored, sometimes there are several narrow revolving chestnut lines.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/manualconch06tryorich G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences] {{PD-notice}} (described as ''Daphnella attenuata'')</ref>

==Distribution== This species occurs in the Northeast [[Atlantic Ocean]], in European waters (but not in the southern part of the [[North Sea]]) and in the [[Mediterranean Sea]].

==References== {{Reflist}} * Montagu. Test. Brit., p.&nbsp;266, pl. 9, f. 6, 1803, 30 * Arnaud, P.M. (1978) ''Revision des taxa malacologiques meditérranéens introduit par Antoine Risso''. Annales du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle de Nice, 5, 101–150. * Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). ''The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe'': 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. {{ISBN|0-19-857356-1}}. 627 pp * Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). ''European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification''. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp.&nbsp;180–213

==External links== * {{Gastropods.com|key=3|id=6093|title=''Mangelia (Mangelia) attenuata''|access-date=16 January 2019}} * [http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2004f/z00682f.pdf Tucker, J.K. 2004 ''Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)''. Zootaxa 682:1–1295.]

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mangelia Attenuata}} [[Category:Mangelia|attenuata]] [[Category:Gastropods described in 1803]] [[Category:Molluscs of the Mediterranean Sea]]