Pterygia (gastropod)

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Pterygia
Pterygia scabricula
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Mitroidea
Family: Mitridae
Subfamily: Cylindromitrinae
Genus: Pterygia
Röding, 1798
Type species
Voluta dactylus
Linnaeus, 1767
Synonyms
  • Acuticylindra Iredale, 1929
  • Cylindra Schumacher, 1817 (invalid: junior homonym of Cylindra, Illiger 1802 [Coleoptera]; Cylindromitra is a replacement name)
  • Cylindromitra P. Fischer, 1884
  • Mitra (Cylindra) Schumacher, 1817

Pterygia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Cylindromitrinae of the family Mitridae.[1]

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