Plesiothyreus cytherae

Plesiothyreus cytherae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Phenacolepadidae.[1]

Plesiothyreus cytherae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Neritimorpha clade Cycloneritimorpha
Superfamily:	Neritoidea
Family:	Phenacolepadidae
Genus:	Plesiothyreus
Species:	P. cytherae
Binomial name
Plesiothyreus cytherae (Lesson, 1831)
Synonyms
Phenacolepas crenulata (Broderip, 1834) Phenacolepas cytherae (Lesson, 1831) Phenacolepas mirabilis G. B. Sowerby III, 1910 Pileopsis cytherae Lesson, 1831 (original combination) Scutella crenulata Broderip, 1834 (probable synonym) Scutellina nobilis G. B. Sowerby III, 1905

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Tahiti.

References

1. MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Plesiothyreus cytherae (Lesson, 1831). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1323144 on 2020-01-12

External links

• Lesson R.P. (1830–1831). Voyage autour du monde, exécuté par ordre du Roi, sur la corvette de Sa Majesté, La Coquille, pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825. Zoologie, 2(1): 1–471 [pp. 1–24 (1830), 25–471 (1831)] Paris: Arthus Bertrand
• Broderip W.J. (1834). Description of a new genus of Gasteropoda. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 2: 47–49
• Fukumori H., Yahagi T., Warén A. & Kano Y. (2019). Amended generic classification of the marine gastropod family Phenacolepadidae: transitions from snails to limpets and shallow-water to deep-sea hydrothermal vents and cold seeps. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 185(3): 636–655