Marine Species Traits - Leiocithara Hedley, 1922

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Leiocithara Hedley, 1922

AphiaID

432487 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:432487)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Mangelia infulata Hedley, 1909 accepted as Leiocithara infulata (Hedley, 1909) (type by original designation)

Parent

Mangeliidae P. Fischer, 1883

Original name

Eucithara (Leiocithara) Hedley, 1922

Synonymised names

Eucithara (Leiocithara) Hedley, 1922 · unaccepted (superseded combination)

Leiocythara [sic] · unaccepted (misspelling)

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Species Leiocithara angulata (Reeve, 1846)
Species Leiocithara apollinea (Melvill, 1904)
Species Leiocithara costellarioides Kilburn, 1992
Species Leiocithara infulata (Hedley, 1909)
Species Leiocithara lischkei (E. A. Smith, 1888)
Species Leiocithara longispira (E. A. Smith, 1879)
Species Leiocithara macrocephala (Thiele, 1925)
Species Leiocithara musae (Thiele, 1925)
Species Leiocithara opalina (E. A. Smith, 1882)
Species Leiocithara perlucidula Kilburn, 1992
Species Leiocithara porcellanea Kilburn, 1992
Species Leiocithara potti (Sturany, 1900)
Species Leiocithara translucens (Barnard, 1958)
Species Leiocithara zamula Kilburn, 1992

Environment

marine

Grammatical gender

feminine

Original description

(of Eucithara (Leiocithara) Hedley, 1922) Hedley, C. (1922). A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum. 13 (6): 213-359., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30170760
page(s): 268 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Leiocithara Hedley, 1922. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=432487 on 2025-05-05

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2009-12-02 08:31:10Z

created

Tucker, John

2011-08-06 05:50:12Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2018-01-21 09:48:24Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

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Nomenclature

original description (of Eucithara (Leiocithara) Hedley, 1922) Hedley, C. (1922). A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum. 13 (6): 213-359., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30170760
page(s): 268 [details]

basis of record Kilburn R.N. 1992. Turridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 6. Subfamily Mangeliinae, section 1. Annals of the Natal Museum, 33: 461–575. [October 1992] [details] Available for editors

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Other

additional source 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., available online at http://mollus.oxfordjournals.org/content/77/3/273.full.pdf [details]

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