# Mangelia attenuata

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Species of gastropod

Mangelia attenuata Shells of Mangelia attenuata Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda Subclass: Caenogastropoda Order: Neogastropoda Superfamily: Conoidea Family: Mangeliidae Genus: Mangelia Species: M. attenuata Binomial name Mangelia attenuata (Montagu, 1803) Synonyms[1] Cythara attenuata (Montagu, 1803) Daphnella attenuata (Montagu, 1803) Mangelia striolata Risso, 1826 Murex aciculatus Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de, 1822 Murex attenuatus Montagu, 1803 (basionym) Pleurotoma villiersii Michaud, A.L.G., 1829 Pleurotoma gracile Philippi, R.A., 1836 Pleurotoma gracilis Scacchi, A., 1836 Pleurotoma payraudeauti Weinkauff, H.C., 1868 Pleurotoma valenciennesii Maravigna, C., 1840 Pleurotoma villiersii Michaud, A.L.G., 1829 Pleurotoma vulpina Bivona-Bernardi, Ant. & And. Bivona-Bernardi, 1838 Raphitoma payraudeauti Weinkauff, 1868

***Mangelia attenuata*** is a species of [sea snail](/source/Sea_snail), a marine [gastropod](/source/Gastropod) [mollusk](/source/Mollusk) in the [family](/source/Family_(taxonomy)) [Mangeliidae](/source/Mangeliidae).[1]

## Description

The shell size varies between 5 mm and 13 mm.

The shell has nine whorls. Each whorl contains nine ribs, narrow, flexuous, with wider interspaces, spirally slightly and finely striate. The narrow [aperture](/source/Aperture_(mollusc)) is long. The [siphonal canal](/source/Siphonal_canal) is short and broad. Its color is pale tawny, the upper part and middle of the [body whorl](/source/Body_whorl) often banded, or the lower half of the body whorl darker colored, sometimes there are several narrow revolving chestnut lines.[2]

## Distribution

This species occurs in the Northeast [Atlantic Ocean](/source/Atlantic_Ocean), in European waters (but not in the southern part of the [North Sea](/source/North_Sea)) and in the [Mediterranean Sea](/source/Mediterranean_Sea).

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-WoRMS_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-WoRMS_1-1) [*Mangelia attenuata* (Montagu, 1803)](http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=139265). Retrieved through: [World Register of Marine Species](/source/World_Register_of_Marine_Species) on 9 August 2011.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences](https://archive.org/details/manualconch06tryorich) This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the [public domain](/source/Public_domain). (described as *Daphnella attenuata*)

- Montagu. Test. Brit., p. 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](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-19-857356-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/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. 180–213

## External links

- ["*Mangelia (Mangelia) attenuata*"](http://www.gastropods.com/3/Shell_6093.shtml). *Gastropods.com*. Retrieved 16 January 2019.

- [Tucker, J.K. 2004 *Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)*. Zootaxa 682:1–1295.](http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2004f/z00682f.pdf)

Taxon identifiers Mangelia attenuata Wikidata: Q3137712 BOLD: 600104 CoL: 3XTZL EUNIS: 59265 GBIF: 2303397 iNaturalist: 482489 IRMNG: 11208230 ITIS: 74571 NBN: NBNSYS0000176364 NCBI: 1676548 OBIS: 139265 Open Tree of Life: 2903913 SeaLifeBase: 5636 WoRMS: 139265 Murex attenuatus Wikidata: Q41085008 CoL: 44LTX GBIF: 6507675 IRMNG: 11707357 WoRMS: 436492

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