Cittarium

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Cittarium
Cittarium pica shell.jpg
Shell of Cittarium pica
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Tegulidae
Genus: Cittarium
Philippi, 1847 [1]
Synonyms
  • LivonaGray, 1842
  • MeleagrisMontfort, 1810 (invalid: not MeleagrisLinnaeus, 1758 [Aves]; Cittarium is a replacement name)
  • Trochus (Livona)Gray, 1842

Cittarium is a genus of a sea snails, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tegulidae. [2]

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Species

There are two species in the genus Cittarium:

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References

  1. ↑ Philippi R. A. (1847). Z. Malakozool.: 21.
  2. ↑ Rosenberg, G. (2013). Cittarium Philippi, 1847. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=413476 on 2013-12-10
  3. ↑ Lozouet, P. (2002). "First Record of The Caribbean Genus Cittarium (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochidae) From The Oligocene of Europe and its Paleobiogeographic Implications". Journal of Paleontology. Paleontological Society. 76 (4): 767–770. doi:10.1666/0022-3360(2002)076<0767:frotcg>2.0.co;2. JSTOR   1307109.
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