Pyrgocythara albovittata

Pyrgocythara albovittata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]

Pyrgocythara albovittata
Shell of Pyrgocythara albovittata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Pyrgocythara
Species:
P. albovittata
Binomial name
Pyrgocythara albovittata
(Adams C. B., 1845)
Synonyms[1]
  • Mangelia luteofasciata Reeve, L.A., 1845
  • Pleurotoma albovittata Adams C. B., 1845 (original combination)
  • Pyrgocythara luteofasciata (L.A. Reeve, 1845)

Description

The length of the shell varies between 4 mm and 6.4 mm.

The orange-banded shell is ovately oblong. The whorls have a narrow shoulder. They are longitudinally strongly ribbed with white, obtuse ribs close-set.

This species was described and figured by Reeve a few months later, under the name of Mangilia luteofasciata, and without locality.[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea and the Lesser Antilles.

References
  1. Pyrgocythara albovittata (Adams C. B., 1845). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 11 August 2011.
  2. G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  • Adams, Charles Baker. "Specierum novarum conchyliorum." Jamaica repertorum, synopsis. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 2.1 (1845): 17.
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
  • "Pyrgocythara albovittata". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
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