Platycythara is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Mangeliidae |
| Genus: | Platycythara Woodring, 1928 |
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| † Platycythara eurystoma Woodring, 1928 | |
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Species
editSpecies within the genus Platycythara include:
- Platycythara curta (Dall, 1919)[2]
- Platycythara elata (Dall, 1889)[3]
- Platycythara electra (Dall, 1919)[4]
- † Platycythara eurystoma W.P. Woodring, 1928
- Species brought intoi synonymy
- † Platycythara metria (Dall 1903): synonym of Vitricythara metria (Dall, 1903)
References
edit- ^ Platycythara. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 7 August 2011.
- ^ Platycythara curta (Dall, 1919). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
- ^ Platycythara elata (Dall, 1889). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
- ^ Platycythara electra (Dall, 1919). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
- Woodring, W. P. "Miocene molluscs from Bowden, Jamaica. Part 2: gastropods and discussion of results. Contributions to the geology and palaeontology of the West Indies." Carnegie Institute Washington Publication 385 (1928): 144–201.
External links
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- 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)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
- Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Mangeliidae