title: Leiocithara apollinea
text: # Leiocithara apollinea
  
  Leiocithara apollinea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.
  
  ## Description
  
  The length of the shell attains 5 mm, its diameter 1.75 mm.
  
  This white shell is a scalate Leiocithara .It has an ovate fusiform shape and contains 5 whorls. It is principally conspicuous for its thickened longitudinal ribs, 9–10 in number on the body whorl. The interstices are quite smooth. One spiral keel alone, a little below the sutures, crosses the ribs at right angles, and at the point of junction bears a beaded point. The aperture is oblong and becomes narrower at its base. The outer lip is incrassate.
  
  ## Distribution
  
  This species occurs in the Gulf of Oman.
  
  