Ithycythara
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| Ithycythara | |
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| Shell of Ithycythara altaspira (holotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Mangeliidae |
| Genus: | Ithycythara Woodring, 1928 |
| Type species | |
| Mangelia psila Bush, 1885 | |
| Species | |
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Ithycythara is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
The spiral sculpture is lacking or consists of microscopic striae. There may be a peripheral keel and a few basal threads.
This genus is closely related to Pseudorhaphitoma. [2]
Distribution
Species in this marine genus of seasnails occur in the Western Atlantic, the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico.
