Ithycythara
Genus of gastropods
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Ithycythara is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
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| Shell of Ithycythara altaspira (holotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| 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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Description
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.
Species
Species within the genus Ithycythara include:
- Ithycythara acutangulus (Smith E. A., 1882)[3]
- Ithycythara altaspira Paulmier, 2019
- Ithycythara antillensis Paulmier, 2019
- Ithycythara apicodenticulata Robba et al., 2003[4]
- Ithycythara auberiana (d’Orbigny, 1847)[5]
- Ithycythara chechoi Espinosa & Ortea, 2004[6]
- Ithycythara cymella (Dall, 1889)[7]
- Ithycythara eburnea Paulmier, 2019
- Ithycythara fasciata Paulmier, 2019
- Ithycythara funicostata Robba et al., 2006[8]
- Ithycythara hyperlepta Haas, 1953[9]
- Ithycythara lanceolata (C. B. Adams, 1850)[10]
- Ithycythara oyuana (Yokoyama, 1922)
- Ithycythara parkeri Abbott, 1958[11]
- Ithycythara penelope (Dall, 1919)[12]
- Ithycythara pentagonalis (Reeve, 1845)[13]
- Ithycythara psila (Bush, 1885)[14]
- Ithycythara rubricata (Reeve, 1846)
- Ithycythara septemcostata (Schepman, 1913)[15]
- Species brought into synonymy
- Ithycythara edithae Nowell-Usticke, 1971: synonym of Cryoturris edithae (Nowell-Usticke, 1971)
- † Ithycythara kellumi Fargo, W. G., 1953: synonym of Ithycythara psila (Bush, 1885)
- Ithycythara muricoides (C. B. Adams, 1850): synonym of Ithycythara lanceolata (C. B. Adams, 1850)
- Extinct species
- † Ithycythara defuniak Gardner 1938
- † Ithycythara elongata Gabb 1873
- † Ithycythara ischna Woodring 1928
- Ithycythara lanceolata Adams 1850 (Recent and fossil)
- † Ithycythara maera Woodring 1928
- Ithycythara psila Bush 1885 (Recent and fossil)
- † Ithycythara psiloides Woodring 1928
- † Ithycythara scissa Woodring 1928
- † Ithycythara tarri Maury 1910
