Anacithara

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Anacithara
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Apertural view of a shell of Anacithara brevicostata
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Horaiclavidae
Genus: Anacithara
Hedley, 1922
Type species
Mangelia naufraga
Hedley, 1909
Species

See text

Synonyms

AnacitharoidaShuto, 1965

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

Contents

This genus was previously classified under the subfamily Mangeliinae, but transferred to Crassispirinae by Kilburn in 1994 [2] In 2011 it was brought into the family Horaiclavidae by Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. in their publication "A new operational classification of the Conoidea" [3]

Description

This genus consists of small claviform shells (3–10 mm) which resemble Eucithara Fischer, 1883 (family Mangeliidae) in their upper whorls and sculpture, but differ in their wide aperture, devoid of teeth on either side. The small, smooth and blunt protoconch consists of two whorls. [4]

Species

Species in Anacithara include:

Species brought into synonymy

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References

  1. ↑ Bouchet, P. (2015). Anacithara Hedley, 1922. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=432392 on 2016-12-17
  2. ↑ Kilburn, R. N. "Turridae [sl](Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 7. Subfamily Crassispirinae, section 2." Annals of the Natal Museum 35 (1994): 177-228.
  3. ↑ Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011). "A new operational classification of the Conoidea". Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273-308. doi : 10.1093/mollus/eyr017.
  4. ↑ Hedley, Charles. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Vol. 13. 1922
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