Thyca

Thyca

Shell of Thyca crystallina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda informal group Ptenoglossa
Superfamily:	Eulimoidea
Family:	Eulimidae
Genus:	Thyca H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854
Type species
Pileopsis astericola A. Adams & Reeve, 1850
Synonyms^[1]
Bessomia Berry, 1959 Capulus (Thyca) Granulithyca Habe, 1976 Kiramodulus Kuroda, 1949 Thyca (Bessomia) Berry, 1959 · accepted, alternate representation Thyca (Kiramodulus) Kuroda, 1949 · accepted, alternate representation Thyca (Thyca) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854 · accepted, alternate representation

Thyca is a genus of small, ectoparasitic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Eulimidae.^[1]

Description

The conical shell is longitudinally grooved, transparent and slightly curved.^[2]

Species

Species within the genus Thyca include:^[1]

Thyca astericola (A. Adams & Reeve, 1850)
Thyca callista Berry, 1959
Thyca crystallina (Gould, 1846)
Thyca ectoconcha P. Sarasin & F. Sarasin, 1887
Thyca hawaiiensis Warén, 1980
Thyca lactea (Kuroda, 1949)
Thyca nardoafrianti (Habe, 1976)
Thyca sagamiensis (Kuroda & Habe, 1971)
Thyca stellasteris Koehler & Vaney, 1912

Species brought into synonymy

Thyca pellucida Kükenthal, 1897: synonym of Thyca crystallina (Gould, 1846)

References

1 2 3 Bouchet, P. (2012). Thyca H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=196298 on 2012-07-25
↑ G.W. Tryon (1886) Manual of Conchology v; VIII

Habe T. (1976) Parasitic gastropods from echinoderms of Japan. Bulletin of the National Science Museum [Tokyo], ser. A, 2(3): 157-171. [22 September 1976] page(s): 165
Warén A. (1980). Revision of the genera Thyca, Stilifer, Scalenostoma, Mucronalia and Echineulima (Mollusca, Prosobranchia, Eulimidae). Zoologica Scripta 9: 187-210
Warén A. (1984) A generic revision of the family Eulimidae (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia). Journal of Molluscan Studies suppl. 13: 1-96. page(s): 46

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