Thelecythara floridana

Thelecythara floridana
Shell of Thelecythara floridana (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Thelecythara
Species:	T. floridana
Binomial name
Thelecythara floridana Fargo, 1953
Synonyms [1]
Thelecythara borroiSarasúa, 1975 Thelecythara cruzensisNowell-Usticke, G.W., 1969

Thelecythara floridana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies. ^[1]

Williams stated in 2005 that Thelecythara borroi Sarasua, 1975 was a synonym of this species ^[2]

Description

The length of the shell attains 9 mm.

Distribution

T. floridana can be found in the Gulf of Mexico, ranging from the coast of Texas, United States south to Venezuela, as well as the eastern Pacific Ocean. ^[3]

References

1. Thelecythara floridana Fargo, 1953 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 29 March 2010.
2. Williams, P. 2005. Florida and Caribbean Turridae part 1: black and brown species. American Conchologist 33(2):30–31.
3. 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. 667.

• Gibson-Smith, J., and W. Gibson-Smith. "New recent gastropod species from Venezuela and a bivalve range extension." Veliger 25.3 (1983): 177
• Sarasúa, H. "Nuevos género, subgénero y especies de moluscos marinos neogastrópodos." Poeyana 140 (1975): 1–15.
• Espinosa J., Ortea J. & Diez García Y. (2017). Nuevas especies y nuevos registros de moluscos gasterópodos (Mollusca: Gastropoda) marinos de la región oriental de Cuba. Avicennia. 21: 59–67

External links

• Rosenberg G., Moretzsohn F. & García E. F. (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
• Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.
• "Thelecythara floridana". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.