''Vitricythara'' 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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Mangeliidae
Mangeliidae is a monophyletic family of small to medium-sized, predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.
Bouchet, P. (2011). Mangeliidae P. Fischer, 1883. In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Regis ...
.
[Bouchet, P. (2011). Vitricythara Fargo, 1953. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=416143 on 2018-02-04]
Species
* ''
Vitricythara metria''
(Dall, 1903)
;Species brought into synonymy:
* ''Vitricythara elata''
(Dall, 1889): synonym of ''
Platycythara elata''
(Dall, 1889)
* ''Vitricythara lavalleana''
(d'Orbigny, 1847): synonym of ''
Cryoturris lavalleana''
(d'Orbigny, 1847)
References
* Fargo, William G. The Pliocene Turridae of Saint Petersburg, Florida. 1953.
External links
*
Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: MangeliidaeBouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77(3): 273-308
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Gastropods described in 1953