genus
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sea snail
Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...
gastropod
Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusk
Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...
s in the
family
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Mangeliidae
Mangeliidae is a monophyletic family of small to medium-sized, predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.
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.
The
type species
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Pliocene
The Pliocene ( ; also Pleiocene) is the epoch (geology), epoch in the geologic time scale that extends from 5.33 to 2.58Pleurotoma trilineata'' (synonym of '' Cryoturris trilineata'' )
Distribution
This genus occurs in the Western
Atlantic Ocean
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, the
Caribbean Sea
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and the
Gulf of Mexico
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Ithycythara lanceolata
''Ithycythara lanceolata'', common name the spear mangelia, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.
Description
The length of the shell varies between 4 mm and 20 mm.
(Original description) Th ...
'' (nomen dubium)
* ''Pyrgocythara brunnea'' : synonym of ''Pyrgocythara plicosa''
* ''Pyrgocythara candidissima'' : synonym of '' Agathotoma candidissima''
* ''Pyrgocythara caribaea'' : synonym of '' Pyrgocythara cinctella''
* ''Pyrgocythara cerea'' : synonym of ''Pyrgocythara hamata''
* ''Pyrgocythara coxi'' : synonym of '' Agathotoma coxi''
* ''Pyrgocythara fusca'' : synonym of ''Pyrgocythara cinctella''
* ''Pyrgocythara hilli'' : synonym of ''Pyrgocythara melita''
* ''Pyrgocythara jewetti'' : synonym of ''Pyrgocythara plicosa''
* ''Pyrgocythara lavalleana'' : synonym of '' Cryoturris lavalleana''
* ''Pyrgocythara luteofasciata'' : synonym of ''Pyrgocythara albovittata''
* ''Pyrgocythara metria'' : synonym of '' Vitricythara metria''
* ''Pyrgocythara obesicostata'' : synonym of ''Pyrgocythara guarani''
* ''Pyrgocythara pederseni'' : synonym of ''Pyrgocythara danae''
* ''Pyrgocythara phaethusa'' : synonym of '' Notocytharella phaethusa''
* ''Pyrgocythara plicata'' : synonym of ''Pyrgocythara plicosa''
References
* Woodring, W.P. (1928) ''Miocene mollusks from Bowden, Jamaica. Part II. Gastropods and discussion of results.'' Contributions to the geology and paleontology of the West Indies. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication, 385, vii + 1–564, 40 pls.