Pyrgospira

Pyrgospira is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudomelatomidae,the turrids and allies[1]

Pyrgospira
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Pyrgospira
McLean, 1971
Type species
Pleurotoma obeliscus
Reeve, 1845
Species

See text

Species

Species within the genus Pyrgospira include:

Species brought into synonymy
  • † Pyrgospira acurugata Dall, 1890: synonym of † Strictispira acurugata (Dall, 1890)
  • Pyrgospira aenone Dall, 1919: synonym of Pyrgospira obeliscus (Reeve, 1845)
  • Pyrgospira fuscescens (Reeve, 1843): synonym of Crassispira fuscescens (Reeve, 1843)
  • Pyrgospira nautica Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932: synonym of Pyrgospira obeliscus (Reeve, 1845)
  • Pyrgospira plicosa (Adams C. B., 1850):[6] synonym of Pyrgocythara plicosa (C. B. Adams, 1850)
  • Pyrgospira tomliniana Melvill, 1927 : synonym of Pyrgospira obeliscus (Reeve, 1845)

References
  1. Pyrgospira McLean, 1971. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
  2. Pyrgospira candace (Dall, 1919). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
  3. Pyrgospira obeliscus (Reeve, 1845). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
  4. Pyrgospira ostrearum (Stearns, 1872). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
  5. Pyrgospira tampaensis (Bartsch & Rehder, 1939). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
  6. Pyrgospira plicosa (Adams C. B., 1850). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
  • Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77(3): 273-308
  • McLean, J.H. (1971) A revised classification of the family Turridae, with the proposal of new subfamilies, genera, and subgenera from the Eastern Pacific. The Veliger, 14, 114–130
  • Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Pseudomelatomidae


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