Ithycythara

Ithycythara is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.[1]

Ithycythara
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Ithycythara
Woodring, 1928
Type species
Mangelia psila
Bush, 1885
Species

See text

Description

The spiral sculpture is lacking or consists of microscopic striae. There may be a peripheral keel and a few basal threads.

This genus is closely related to Pseudorhaphitoma. [2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Western Atlantic, the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico.

Species

Species within the genus Ithycythara include:

Species brought into synonymy
  • Ithycythara edithae Nowell-Usticke, 1971: synonym of Cryoturris edithae (Nowell-Usticke, 1971)
  • † Ithycythara kellumi Fargo, W. G., 1953: synonym of Ithycythara psila (Bush, 1885)
Extinct species
  • † Ithycythara defuniak Gardner 1938
  • † Ithycythara elongata Gabb 1873
  • † Ithycythara ischna Woodring 1928
  • Ithycythara lanceolata Adams 1850 (Recent and fossil)
  • † Ithycythara maera Woodring 1928
  • Ithycythara psila Bush 1885 (Recent and fossil)
  • † Ithycythara psiloides Woodring 1928
  • † Ithycythara scissa Woodring 1928
  • † Ithycythara tarri Maury 1910

References
  1. Ithycythara . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 7 August 2011.
  2. R .N. Kilburn, Turridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 7. Subfamily Mangeliinae, section 2; Annals of the Natal Museum 34, pp 317–367 (1993)
  3. Ithycythara acutangulus (Smith E. A., 1882). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
  4. Ithycythara apicodenticulata Robba et al., 2003. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
  5. Ithycythara auberiana (d’Orbigny, 1847). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
  6. Ithycythara chechoi Espinosa & Ortea, 2004. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
  7. Ithycythara cymella (Dall, 1889). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
  8. Ithycythara funicostata Robba et al., 2006. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
  9. Ithycythara hyperlepta Haas, 1953. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
  10. Ithycythara lanceolata (C. B. Adams, 1850). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
  11. Ithycythara muricoides (Adams C. B., 1850). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
  12. Ithycythara parkeri Abbott, 1958. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
  13. Ithycythara penelope (Dall, 1919). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
  14. Ithycythara pentagonalis (Reeve, 1845). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
  15. Ithycythara psila (Bush, 1885). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
  16. Ithycythara septemcostata (Schepman, 1913). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
  • W. P. Woodring. 1928. Miocene Molluscs from Bowden, Jamaica. Part 2: Gastropods and discussion of results. Contributions to the Geology and Palaeontology of the West Indies
  • W. P. Woodring. 1970. Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoining parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Eulimidae, Marginellidae to Helminthoglyptidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(D):299–452


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