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Platycythara
Shell of Platycythara elata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Platycythara Woodring, 1928
Type species
† Platycythara eurystoma Woodring, 1928
Species
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Platycythara is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.

Species

Species within the genus Platycythara include:

• Platycythara curta (Dall, 1919)
• Platycythara elata (Dall, 1889)
• Platycythara electra (Dall, 1919)
• † Platycythara eurystoma W.P. Woodring, 1928

Species brought intoi synonymy

• † Platycythara metria (Dall 1903): synonym of Vitricythara metria (Dall, 1903)

References

1. Platycythara. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 7 August 2011.
2. Platycythara curta (Dall, 1919). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
3. Platycythara elata (Dall, 1889). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
4. Platycythara electra (Dall, 1919). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.

• Woodring, W. P. "Miocene molluscs from Bowden, Jamaica. Part 2: gastropods and discussion of results. Contributions to the geology and palaeontology of the West Indies." Carnegie Institute Washington Publication 385 (1928): 144–201.

External links

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

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