Ithycythara pentagonalis

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Ithycythara pentagonalis
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Original image of a shell of Ithycythara pentagonalis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Ithycythara
Species:
I. pentagonalis
Binomial name
Ithycythara pentagonalis
(Reeve, 1845)
Synonyms [1]

Pleurotoma pentagonalisReeve, 1845

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

Contents

Tucker considers Ithycythara auberiana a synonym of Ithycythara pentagonalisReeve, L.A., 1845 [2]

Description

The smooth, ivory white shell has an oblong-ovate shape. It is longitudinally five-angled. It shows compressed ribs at the angles, pointed at the upper part of the ribs.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off St Vincent, West Indies.

References

  1. 1 2 Ithycythara pentagonalis (Reeve, 1845) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 8 August 2011.
  2. ↑ Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1..


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