''Thelecythara'' is a
genus
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of
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 ...
s,
marine 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
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s in the
family
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Pseudomelatomidae
Pseudomelatomidae is a family (biology), family of predatory sea snails, marine gastropods included in the superfamily Conoidea (previously Conacea) and part of the Neogastropoda (Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005), Bouchet & Ro ...
.
Species
Species within the genus ''Thelecythara'' include:
* ''
Thelecythara dushanae''
McLean & Poorman, 1971
* ''
Thelecythara floridana''
Fargo, 1953
* ''
Thelecythara mucronata''
(Guppy, 1896)
* † ''
Thelecythara oligocaenica''
Lozouet, 2017
;Species brought into synonymy :
* ''Thelecythara borroi''
Sarasúa, 1975 : synonym of ''Thelecythara floridana''
Fargo, 1953
* ''Thelecythara cruzensis''
Nowell-Usticke, G.W., 1969: synonym of ''Thelecythara floridana''
Fargo, 1953
* ''Thelecythara dominguezi''
Gibson-Smith J. & W., 1983: synonym of ''
Maesiella dominguezi''
(J. Gibson-Smith & W. Gibson-Smith, 1983)
* ''Thelecythara vitrea''
(Reeve, 1845):
synonym of ''
Otitoma vitrea'' (Reeve, 1845)
References
* 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
* Lozouet P. (2017). Les Conoidea de l'Oligocène supérieur (Chattien) du bassin de l'Adour (Sud-Ouest de la France). Cossmanniana. 19: 3-180.
External links
Tucker, J.K. 2004 ''Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)''. Zootaxa 682:1-1295
Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). ''A new operational classification of the Conoidea.'' Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77, 273-308
Pseudomelatomidae
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