Cithna

Cithna is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Liotiidae.^[2]

Cithna
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Liotiidae
Genus:	Cithna A. Adams, 1863 [1]

Species

Species within the genus Cithna include:

• Cithna globosa A. Adams, 1863
• Cithna margaritifera (R. B. Watson, 1880)
• † Cithna pilsbryi Richards 1947 ^[3]
• Cithna spirata A. Adams, 1863

Synonyms

• Cithna carinata Jeffreys, 1883^[4] is a synonym of Haloceras carinata (Jeffreys, 1883)
• Cithna cingulata Verrill, 1884 is a synonym of Haloceras cingulata (Verrill, 1884)
• Cithna jeffreysi (Dautzenberg, 1889) is a synonym of Benthonella tenella (Jeffreys, 1869)
• Cithna marshalli Sykes, 1925 is a synonym of Iphitus marshalli (Sykes, 1925)
• Cithna naticiformis Jeffreys, 1883 is a synonym of Choristella nofronii McLean, 1992
• Cithna tenella (Jeffreys, 1869): synonym of Benthonella tenella (Jeffreys, 1869)

References

1. Adams A. 1863. On the genera and species of Fossaridae found in Japan. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1863: 110-113.
2. Cithna. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 22 April 2010.
3. H. G. Richards. 1947. Invertebrate fossils from deep wells along the Atlantic Coastal Plain. Journal of Paleontology 21(1):23-37
4. Cithna carinata Jeffreys, 1883. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 22 April 2010.