Vitricythara is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
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| Shell of Vitricythara metria (museum specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Mangeliidae |
| Genus: | Vitricythara Fargo, 1953 |
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Species
edit- 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
edit- ^ a b 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
- Fargo, William G. The Pliocene Turridae of Saint Petersburg, Florida. 1953.
External links
edit- Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
- Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Mangeliidae
- Bouchet, 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