Plesiothyreus cytherae

Plesiothyreus cytherae
Shell of Plesiothyreus cytherae (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
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 Phenacolepas nobilis (G. B. Sowerby III, 1905) Pileopsis cytherae Lesson, 1831 (original combination) Scutella crenulata Broderip, 1834 (probable synonym) Scutellina nobilis G. B. Sowerby III, 1905

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

Description[]

The length of the shell attains 15.5 mm.

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Distribution[]

This marine species occurs off Tahiti.

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• 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
• Sowerby, G. B. III. (1910). Description of new species of Donovania, Pisania, Phenocolepas, and Fissurella. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 9(1): 65–67
• 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