Hemicythara

Genus of gastropods

Hemicythara
Hemicythara angicostata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Hemicythara
Kuroda & Oyama, 1971
Type species
Pleurotoma octangulata
Dunker, 1860
Species

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Hemicythara is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.[1]

Species

According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) the following species with valid names are included within the genus Hemicythara :[2]

  • Hemicythara angicostata (Reeve, 1846)
  • Hemicythara octangulata (Dunker, 1860)
Species brought into synonymy
  • Hemicythara melanostoma A. Garrett, 1873: synonym of Hemicythara angicostata (L.A. Reeve, 1846)
  • Hemicythara scalata S.M. Souverbie, 1874: synonym of Hemicythara angicostata (L.A. Reeve, 1846)

References

  1. ^ Bouchet, P. (2017). Hemicythara Kuroda & Oyama, 1971. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=432470 on 2017-07-15
  2. ^ WoRMS : Guraleus
  • Kuroda, T.; Habe, T.; Oyama, K. (1971). The Sea Shells of Sagami Bay. Maruzen Co., Tokyo. xix, 1-741 (Japanese text), 1-489 (English text), 1-51 (Index), pls 1-121
  • Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273-308.
  • Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Mangeliidae
  • Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.
Taxon identifiers
Hemicythara


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