Biology:Bactrocythara

Short description: Genus of gastropods

Bactrocythara
Bactrocythara candeana
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Bactrocythara Woodring, 1928
Type species
Bactrocythara obtusa Guppy, R.J.L. in Guppy, R.J.L. & W.H. Dall, 1896
Species
See text

Bactrocythara is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.

Species

Species within the genus Bactrocythara include:

• Bactrocythara agachada Rolán, Otero-Schmitt & Fernandes, 1994
• Bactrocythara asarca (Dall & Simpson, 1901)
• † Bactrocythara ascara (W.H. Dall & C.T. Simpson, 1900)
• Bactrocythara candeana (d'Orbigny, 1847)
• Bactrocythara cryera (Dall, 1927)
• Bactrocythara haullevillei (Dautzenberg, 1912)
• Bactrocythara labiosa (Smith E. A., 1872)
• † Bactrocythara obtusa (R.J.L. Guppy, 1896)

Species brought into synonymy

• Bactrocythara thielei J. Knudsen, 1952: synonym of Bactrocythara labiosa (E.A. Smith, 1872)

References

• 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
• Rolán E., 2005. Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda.

External links

• Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273-308.
• Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.
• Worldwide Mollusk Data base : Mangeliidae
• Todd, Jonathan A. "Systematic list of gastropods in the Panama Paleontology Project collections." Budd and Foster 2006 (1996)

Wikidata ☰ Q3171056 entry