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Platycythara curta
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Platycythara
Species:	P. curta
Binomial name
Platycythara curta (Dall, 1919)
Synonyms
Zetekia curta Dall, 1919

Platycythara curta is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.

Description

The length of the shell is 2.3 m, its diameter 1.5 mm.

(Original description) The small, short, solid, inflated shell has a brownish color,. The minute protoconch is smooth. It is succeeded by about three subsequent strongly sculptured whorls. The suture is distinct. The axial sculpture consists of (on the penultimate whorl about 15) narrow, sharp, similar riblets with wider interspace. This sculpture extends over the base. The spiral sculpture consists of (on the body whorl about 16) even regular similar threads with subequal interspaces which pass over but do not nodulate the ribs. The aperture is narrow. The outer lip is thickened, crenulate by the sculpture and not reflected. The anal sulcus is shallow but conspicuous. The columellar lip is smooth. The columella shows a layer of enamel with a raised edge. The siphonal canal is short, deep, but hardly differentiated.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Pacific Panama.

References

1. ^ Platycythara curta (Dall, 1919). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 11 August 2011.
2. Dall (1919) Descriptions of new species of Mollusca from the North Pacific Ocean; Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum, vol. 56 (1920) This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

External links

• Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
• "Platycythara curta". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.

• Platycythara
• Gastropods described in 1919