Brachycythara

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Genus of gastropods

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::summary Genus of gastropods ::

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Brachycythara is a genus of very small predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.

Description

(Original description) The shell is small, stout and biconic. The protoconch is small-tipped, consisting of about 3 very rapidly enlarging whorls. The body whorl is sculptured with crowded, protractive, curved, axial riblets. The aperture is long and narrow. The base of the shell is barely emarginate. The anterior canal is not differentiated. The outer lip is not varicose, except at intervals corresponding to axial ribs. The anal notch is shallow. Specimens with a perfectly formed outer lip show a low denticle below the notch well within the aperture. The parietal callus is moderately thickened adjoining notch. The sculpture consists of axial ribs, barely overridden by fine spiral threads, and of microscopic frosted spirals.

Brachycythara is a genus of small, biconic turrids having a very rapidly enlarging axially sculptured protoconch, non-varicose outer lip, and no anterior canal.

Species

Species within the genus Brachycythara include:

References

  • Rolán E. & Espinosa J. (1999).* El complejo Brachycythara biconica (C. B. Adams, 1850) (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Turridae) en Cuba, con la descripción de una nueva especie*. Bollettino Malacologico, 34(1–4): 43–49.

References

  1. {{WRMS species. 367559. ''Brachycythara'' Woodring, 1928. 7 August 2011
  2. W. P. Woodring. 1928. ''Miocene Molluscs from Bowden, Jamaica. Part 2: Gastropods and discussion of results'' . Contributions to the Geology and Palaeontology of the West Indies
  3. {{WRMS species. 435263. ''Brachycythara alba'' (Adams C. B., 1850). 16 April 2010
  4. {{WRMS species. 420325. ''Brachycythara barbarae'' Lyons, 1972. 16 April 2010
  5. {{WRMS species. 420326. ''Brachycythara biconica'' (C. B. Adams, 1850). 16 April 2010
  6. {{WRMS species. 433160. ''Brachycythara brevis'' (Adams C. B., 1850). 16 April 2010
  7. {{WRMS species. 420327. ''Brachycythara galae'' Fargo, 1953. 16 April 2010
  8. {{WRMS species. 458214. ''Brachycythara multicincta'' Rolan & Espinosa, 1999. 16 April 2010
  9. {{WRMS species. 367560. ''Brachycythara atlantidea'' (Knudsen, 1952). 16 April 2010
  10. {{WRMS species. 367561. ''Brachycythara beatriceae'' Mariottini, 2007. 16 April 2010
  11. {{WRMS species. 420328. ''Brachycythara multicinctata'' Rolán & Espinosa, 1999. 16 April 2010
  12. {{WRMS species. 433161. ''Brachycythara stegeri'' Nowell-Usticke, 1959. 16 April 2010

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