Misplaced Pages

Ithycythara auberiana
Shell of Ithycythara auberiana (specimen at the Natural History Museum, London)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Ithycythara
Species:	I. auberiana
Binomial name
Ithycythara auberiana (d’Orbigny, 1847)
Synonyms
Clathurella auberiana (d'Orbigny, 1847) Defrancia auberiana (d'Orbigny, 1847) Pleurotoma auberiana d'Orbigny, 1847

Ithycythara auberiana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.

Tucker considers this species a synonym of Ithycythara pentagonalis Reeve, L.A., 1845

Icythara rubricata (Reeve, 1846) may be an older name for this species; see Williams (2005).

Description

The length of the shell varies between 4 mm and 8 mm.

This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (July 2017)

Distribution

I. auberiana can be found in Atlantic waters, ranging from the eastern coast of Florida south to Brazil.; in the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and the Lesser Antilles at depths between 1 m and 100 m.

References

1. ^ Ithycythara auberiana (d’Orbigny, 1847). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 August 2011.
2. Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.
3. "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" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 August 2016. Retrieved 14 July 2016.
4. Williams, P. 2005. Florida and Caribbean Turridae part 1: black and brown species. American Conchologist 33(2): 30–31
5. 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". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
• MNHN, Paris : Ithycythara auberiana

• v
• t
• e

• Ithycythara
• Gastropods described in 1847
• Mangeliidae stubs