''Ithycythara parkeri'' is a species of
sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...
, a marine
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk in the
family Mangeliidae.
Description
The length of the shell attains 6 mm.
Distribution
''I. parkeri'' can be found in the
Atlantic Ocean, the
Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean waters, ranging from the coast of
North Carolina south to
Colombia
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and surrounding
Puerto Rico.
[Tunnell, John W., Jr., Felder, Darryl L., & Earle, Sylvia A., eds. ''Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota, Volume 1: Biodiversity.'' Texas A&M University Press, 2009. 666.] at depths between 1 m and 55 m.
References
* Abbott, R. T. 1958. ''The marine mollusks of Grand Cayman Island, British West Indies''. Monographs of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 11:
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+ 138 pp., 5 pls.
Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 2009.'' Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico,'' Pp. 579–699 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas
External links
Tucker, J.K. 2004 ''Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)''. Zootaxa 682:1–1295.*
MNHN, Paris : ''Ithycythara parkeri''
parkeri
Gastropods described in 1958
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