Brachycythara

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Brachycythara
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Brachycythara
Woodring, 1928
Type species
Brachycythara gibba
Guppy, R.J.L. in Guppy, R.J.L. & W.H. Dall, 1896
Species

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Brachycythara is a genus of very small predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae. [1]

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Description

(Original description) The shell is small, stout and biconic. The protoconch is small-tipped, consisting of about 3 very rapidly enlarging whorls. The body whorl is sculptured with crowded, protractive, curved, axial riblets. The aperture is long and narrow. The base of the shell is barely emarginate. The anterior canal is not differentiated. The outer lip is not varicose, except at intervals corresponding to axial ribs. The anal notch is shallow. Specimens with a perfectly formed outer lip show a low denticle below the notch well within the aperture. The parietal callus is moderately thickened adjoining notch. The sculpture consists of axial ribs, barely overridden by fine spiral threads, and of microscopic frosted spirals.

Brachycythara is a genus of small, biconic turrids having a very rapidly enlarging axially sculptured protoconch, non-varicose outer lip, and no anterior canal. [2]

Species

Species within the genus Brachycythara include:

Species brought into synonymy

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References

  1. ↑ Brachycythara Woodring, 1928 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 7 August 2011.
  2. ↑ 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
  3. ↑ Brachycythara alba (Adams C. B., 1850) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 16 April 2010.
  4. ↑ Brachycythara barbarae Lyons, 1972 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 16 April 2010.
  5. ↑ Brachycythara biconica (C. B. Adams, 1850) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 16 April 2010.
  6. ↑ Brachycythara brevis (Adams C. B., 1850) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 16 April 2010.
  7. ↑ Brachycythara galae Fargo, 1953 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 16 April 2010.
  8. ↑ Brachycythara multicincta Rolan & Espinosa, 1999 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 16 April 2010.
  9. ↑ Brachycythara atlantidea (Knudsen, 1952) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 16 April 2010.
  10. ↑ Brachycythara beatriceae Mariottini, 2007 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 16 April 2010.
  11. ↑ Brachycythara multicinctata Rolán & Espinosa, 1999 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 16 April 2010.
  12. ↑ Brachycythara stegeri Nowell-Usticke, 1959 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 16 April 2010.
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