Ithycythara auberiana

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Ithycythara auberiana
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Shell of Ithycythara auberiana (specimen at the Natural History Museum, London)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Ithycythara
Species:
I. auberiana
Binomial name
Ithycythara auberiana
(d’Orbigny, 1847)
Synonyms [1]
  • Clathurella auberiana(d'Orbigny, 1847)
  • Defrancia auberiana(d'Orbigny, 1847)
  • Pleurotoma auberianad'Orbigny, 1847

Ithycythara auberiana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae. [1]

Contents

Tucker considers this species a synonym of Ithycythara pentagonalis Reeve, L.A., 1845 [2]

Icythara rubricata (Reeve, 1846) may be an older name for this species; see Williams (2005). [3] [4]

Description

The length of the shell varies between 4 mm and 8 mm.

Distribution

I. auberiana can be found in Atlantic waters, ranging from the eastern coast of Florida south to Brazil.; [5] in the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and the Lesser Antilles at depths between 1 m and 100 m.

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References

  1. 1 2 Ithycythara auberiana (d’Orbigny, 1847) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 8 August 2011.
  2. Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.
  3. "Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 2009. Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 August 2016. Retrieved 14 July 2016.
  4. Williams, P. 2005. Florida and Caribbean Turridae part 1: black and brown species. American Conchologist 33(2): 30–31
  5. Tunnell, John W., Jr., Felder, Darryl L., & Earle, Sylvia A., eds. Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota, Volume 1: Biodiversity. Texas A&M University Press, 2009. 666.