Pterygia (gastropod) explained

Pterygia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Cylindromitrinae of the family Mitridae.

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

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 30-31
• Fedosov 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