''Pterygia'' is a
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of
sea snail
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s,
marine
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gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
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mollusk
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s in the subfamily
Cylindromitrinae of the
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Mitridae
Mitridae, known as mitre shells, are a taxonomic family of sea snails, widely distributed marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Mitroidea.MolluscaBase (2018). Mitridae Swainson, 1831. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http: ...
.
Species
Species within the genus ''Pterygia'' include:
* ''
Pterygia arctata''
* ''
Pterygia conus''
* ''
Pterygia crenulata''
* ''
Pterygia dactylus''
* ''
Pterygia deburghiae'' (taxon inquirendum)
* ''
Pterygia fenestrata''
* ''
Pterygia glans'' (taxon inquirendum)
* ''
Pterygia gorii''
* ''
Pterygia japonica''
* ''
Pterygia jeanjacquesi''
* ''
Pterygia morrisoni''
* ''
Pterygia nucea''
* ''
Pterygia purtymuni''
* ''
Pterygia scabricula''
* ''
Pterygia sinensis''
* ''
Pterygia undulosa''
:
;Species brought into synonymy:
* ''Pterygia barrywilsoni'' : synonym of ''
Scabricola barrywilsoni'' (original combination)
* ''Pterygia denticulata'' : synonym of ''
Glabella denticulata''
* ''Pterygia edentula'' synonym of ''
Nebularia edentula''
* ''Pterygia erminea'' : synonym of ''
Glabella faba''
* ''Pterygia gilbertsoni'' : synonym of ''
Scabricola gilbertsoni'' (original combination)
* ''Pterygia nebulosa'' : synonym of ''
Marginella nebulosa''
* ''Pterygia nucella'' : synonym of ''
Pterygia dactylus''
* ''Pterygia pudica'' :
synonym of ''
Strigatella pudica''
* ''Pterygia punctata'' : synonym of ''
Imbricariopsis punctata
''Imbricariopsis punctata'', common name the bone-like mitre, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.Bouchet, P. (2017). Pterygia punctata (Swainson, 1821). In: MolluscaBase (201 ...
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References
* Cernohorsky W.O. (1991). The Mitridae of the world. Part 2. The subfamily Mitrinae concluded and subfamilies Imbricariinae and Cylindromitrinae. Monographs of Marine Mollusca. 4: ii + 164 pp
External links
Röding, P.F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg. viii, 199 pp Iredale, T. (1929). Queensland molluscan notes, No. 1. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 9(3): 261-297, pls 30-31Fedosov A., Puillandre N., Herrmann M., Kantor Yu., Oliverio M., Dgebuadze P., Modica M.V. & Bouchet P. (2018). The collapse of Mitra: molecular systematics and morphology of the Mitridae (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 1-85
Mitridae
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