Pyrgocythara emeryi

Pyrgocythara emeryi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]

Pyrgocythara emeryi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Pyrgocythara
Species:
P. emeryi
Binomial name
Pyrgocythara emeryi
Fargo, 1953

Description

The length of the shell attains 6 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Virgin Islands (?).

References

  1. {Rosenberg, G. (2010). Pyrgocythara emeryi Fargo, 1953. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=532302 on 2018-01-20
  • Fargo, W. G. 1953. Pliocene Mollusca of Southern Florida. Part II. The Pliocene Turridae of Saint Petersburg, Florida Monographs of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 18 365–409, pls. 16–24
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.


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