Ithycythara auberiana
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| Shell of Ithycythara auberiana (specimen at the Natural History Museum, London) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Mangeliidae |
| Genus: | Ithycythara |
| Species: | I. auberiana
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| Binomial name | |
| Ithycythara auberiana (d’Orbigny, 1847)
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Ithycythara auberiana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
Tucker considers this species a synonym of Ithycythara pentagonalis Reeve, L.A., 1845[2]
Icythara rubricata (Reeve, 1846) may be an older name for this species; see Williams (2005).[3][4]
Description[edit]
The length of the shell varies between 4 mm and 8 mm.
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Distribution[edit]
I. auberiana can be found in Atlantic waters, ranging from the eastern coast of Florida south to Brazil.;[5] in the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and the Lesser Antilles at depths between 1 m and 100 m.
References[edit]
- ^ a b Ithycythara auberiana (d’Orbigny, 1847). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 August 2011.
- ^ Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.
- ^ "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.
- ^ Williams, P. 2005. Florida and Caribbean Turridae part 1: black and brown species. American Conchologist 33(2): 30–31
- ^ 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[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ithycythara auberiana.
- "Ithycythara auberiana". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
- MNHN, Paris : Ithycythara auberiana