Thelecythara floridana

Thelecythara floridana
	Shell of Thelecythara floridana (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Thelecythara
Species:	T. floridana
Binomial name
	Thelecythara floridana; Fargo, 1953
Synonyms
	Thelecythara borroi Sarasúa, 1975; Thelecythara cruzensis Nowell-Usticke, G.W., 1969;

Thelecythara floridana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.^[1]

Williams stated in 2005 that Thelecythara borroi Sarasua, 1975 was a synonym of this species^[2]

Description

The length of the shell attains 9 mm.

T. floridana can be found in the Gulf of Mexico, ranging from the coast of Texas south to Venezuela, as well as the eastern Pacific Ocean.^[3]

^ ^a ^b Thelecythara floridana Fargo, 1953. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 29 March 2010.
^ Williams, P. 2005. Florida and Caribbean Turridae part 1: black and brown species. American Conchologist 33(2):30–31.
^ 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. 667.

Gibson-Smith, J., and W. Gibson-Smith. "New recent gastropod species from Venezuela and a bivalve range extension." Veliger 25.3 (1983): 177
Sarasúa, H. "Nuevos género, subgénero y especies de moluscos marinos neogastrópodos." Poeyana 140 (1975): 1–15.
Espinosa J., Ortea J. & Diez García Y. (2017). Nuevas especies y nuevos registros de moluscos gasterópodos (Mollusca: Gastropoda) marinos de la región oriental de Cuba. Avicennia. 21: 59–67

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