Kurtzia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
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| Drawing of a shell of Kurtzia granulatissima | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Mangeliidae |
| Genus: | Kurtzia Bartsch, 1944 |
| Type species | |
| Mangilia arteaga Dall & Bartsch, 1910
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Fossil species have been in Pliocene strata of Panama, Miocene strata in Central Chile and in Quaternary strata in California, USA
Species edit
Species within the genus Kurtzia include:
- Kurtzia aethra (Dall, 1919)[2]
- Kurtzia arteaga (Dall & Bartsch, 1910)[3]
- Kurtzia elenensis McLean & Poorman, 1971[4]
- Kurtzia ephaedra (Dall, 1919)[5]
- Kurtzia granulatissima (Moerch, 1860)[6]
- Kurtzia humboldti McLean & Poorman, 1971[7]
- † Kurtzia kilburni C. Nielsen, 2003
- Species brought into synonymy
- Kurtzia aegialea W.H. Dall, 1919 : synonym of Kurtzia granulatissima (O.A.L. Mörch, 1860)
- Kurtzia gordoni Bartsch, 1944: synonym of Kurtzia arteaga (Dall & Bartsch, 1910)
References edit
- ^ a b Kurtzia. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 7 August 2011.
- ^ Kurtzia aethra (Dall, 1919). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
- ^ Kurtzia arteaga (Dall & Bartsch, 1910). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
- ^ Kurtzia elenensis McLean & Poorman, 1971. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
- ^ Kurtzia ephaedra (Dall, 1919). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
- ^ Kurtzia granulatissima (Moerch, 1860). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
- ^ Kurtzia humboldti McLean & Poorman, 1971. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
External links edit
- Bartsch, P, Some turrid mollusks of Monterey Bay and vicinity; Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, v. 57 p. 57-68
- Todd, Jonathan A. "Systematic list of gastropods in the Panama Paleontology Project collections." Budd and Foster 2006 (1996)
- Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273-308
- Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Mangeliidae
- Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.