Cittarium is a genus of a sea snails, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tegulidae.[2]

Cittarium
Shell of Cittarium pica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Tegulidae
Genus: Cittarium
Philippi, 1847[1]
Type species
Turbo pica
Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms
  • Livona Gray, 1842
  • Meleagris Montfort, 1810 (invalid: not Meleagris Linnaeus, 1758 [Aves]; Cittarium is a replacement name)
  • Trochus (Livona) Gray, 1842

Species

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There are two species in the genus Cittarium:

References

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  1. ^ Philippi R. A. (1847). Z. Malakozool.: 21.
  2. ^ Rosenberg, G. (2013). Cittarium Philippi, 1847. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=413476 on 2013-12-10
  3. ^ Lozouet, P. (2002). "First Record of The Caribbean Genus Cittarium (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochidae) From The Oligocene of Europe and its Paleobiogeographic Implications". Journal of Paleontology. 76 (4). Paleontological Society: 767–770. doi:10.1666/0022-3360(2002)076<0767:frotcg>2.0.co;2. JSTOR 1307109.
  • Williams S.T., Karube S. & Ozawa T. (2008) Molecular systematics of Vetigastropoda: Trochidae, Turbinidae and Trochoidea redefined. Zoologica Scripta 37: 483–506.
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