Pyrgocythara crassicostata

Pyrgocythara crassicostata, common name the plicate mangelia, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]

Pyrgocythara crassicostata
Shell of Pyrgocythara crassicostata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Pyrgocythara
Species:
P. crassicostata
Binomial name
Pyrgocythara crassicostata
(C. B. Adams, 1850)
Synonyms[1]

Mangilia badia L.A. Reeve, 1846

Description

The length of the shell attains 5.6 mm.

The dark chestnut-brown shell is plicately ribbed and transversely strongly plicated.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Jamaica and Colombia.

References

  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
  • "Pyrgocythara crassicostata". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
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