Thelecythara

Thelecythara is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudomelatomidae.^[1]

Thelecythara
Shell of Thelecythara floridana
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Thelecythara Woodring, 1928
Type species
Cythara mucronata Guppy, 1896
Species
See text

Species

Species within the genus Thelecythara include:

• Thelecythara dushanae McLean & Poorman, 1971^[2]
• Thelecythara floridana Fargo, 1953^[3]
• Thelecythara mucronata (Guppy, 1896)^[4]
• † Thelecythara oligocaenica Lozouet, 2017

Species brought into synonymy

• Thelecythara borroi Sarasúa, 1975 : synonym of Thelecythara floridana Fargo, 1953
• Thelecythara cruzensis Nowell-Usticke, G.W., 1969: synonym of Thelecythara floridana Fargo, 1953
• Thelecythara dominguezi Gibson-Smith J. & W., 1983:^[5] synonym of Maesiella dominguezi (J. Gibson-Smith & W. Gibson-Smith, 1983)
• Thelecythara vitrea (Reeve, 1845):^[6] synonym of Otitoma vitrea (Reeve, 1845)

References

1. Thelecythara. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 August 2011.
2. Thelecythara dushanae McLean & Poorman, 1971. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
3. Thelecythara floridana Fargo, 1953. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
4. Thelecythara mucronata (Guppy, 1896). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
5. Thelecythara dominguezi Gibson-Smith J. & W., 1983. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
6. Thelecythara vitrea (Reeve, 1845). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.

• W. P. Woodring. 1928. Miocene Molluscs from Bowden, Jamaica. Part 2: Gastropods and discussion of results. Contributions to the Geology and Palaeontology of the West Indies
• Lozouet P. (2017). Les Conoidea de l'Oligocène supérieur (Chattien) du bassin de l'Adour (Sud-Ouest de la France). Cossmanniana. 19: 3-180.

External links

• Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.
• Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77, 273-308
• Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Thelecythara