Cittarium

Cittarium is a genus of a sea snails, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tegulidae.^[2]

Cittarium
Shell of Cittarium pica
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Tegulidae
Genus:	Cittarium Philippi, 1847[1]
Type species
Turbo pica Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms
Livona Gray, 1842 Meleagris Montfort, 1810 (invalid: not Meleagris Linnaeus, 1758 [Aves]; Cittarium is a replacement name) Trochus (Livona) Gray, 1842

Species

There are two species in the genus Cittarium:

• † Cittarium maestratii Lozouet, 2002^[3]
• Cittarium pica (Linnaeus, 1758)

References

1. Philippi R. A. (1847). Z. Malakozool.: 21.
2. Rosenberg, G. (2013). Cittarium Philippi, 1847. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=413476 on 2013-12-10
3. Lozouet, P. (2002). "First Record of The Caribbean Genus Cittarium (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochidae) From The Oligocene of Europe and its Paleobiogeographic Implications". Journal of Paleontology. 76 (4). Paleontological Society: 767–770. doi:10.1666/0022-3360(2002)076<0767:frotcg>2.0.co;2. JSTOR 1307109.

• Williams S.T., Karube S. & Ozawa T. (2008) Molecular systematics of Vetigastropoda: Trochidae, Turbinidae and Trochoidea redefined. Zoologica Scripta 37: 483–506.

External links

• Philippi, R. A. (1847). Versuch einer systematischen Eintheilung des Geschlechtes Trochus. Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie. 4: 3-11, 17-26
• Montfort P. [Denys de. (1808-1810). Conchyliologie systématique et classification méthodique des coquilles. Paris: Schoell. Vol. 1: pp. lxxxvii + 409 [1808]. Vol. 2: pp. 676 + 16]