Biology:Ithycythara auberiana
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Short description: Species of gastropod
| Ithycythara auberiana | |
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| Shell of Ithycythara auberiana (specimen at the Natural History Museum, London) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Mangeliidae |
| Genus: | Ithycythara |
| Species: | I. auberiana
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| Binomial name | |
| Ithycythara auberiana (d’Orbigny, 1847)
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Ithycythara auberiana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
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.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ithycythara auberiana (d’Orbigny, 1847). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 August 2011.
- ↑ Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.
- ↑ "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". http://biogomx.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/chapters/33-Rosenberg%20et%20al%202009-Gastropoda%20of%20the%20GoMx.pdf.
- ↑ Williams, P. 2005. Florida and Caribbean Turridae part 1: black and brown species. American Conchologist 33(2): 30–31
- ↑ 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.
External links
- "Ithycythara auberiana" (in en). Gastropods.com. http://www.gastropods.com/0/Shell_15200.shtml.
- MNHN, Paris : Ithycythara auberiana
Wikidata ☰ Q3176497 entry
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