Kurtzia

Short description: Genus of gastropods

Kurtzia

Drawing of a shell of Kurtzia granulatissima
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Mollusca
Class:  | Gastropoda
Subclass:  | Caenogastropoda
Order:  | Neogastropoda
Superfamily:  | Conoidea
Family:  | Mangeliidae
Genus:  | Kurtzia
Bartsch, 1944
Type species
Mangilia arteaga

Dall & Bartsch, 1910

Species

See text

Kurtzia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.[1]

Fossil species have been in Pliocene strata of Panama, Miocene strata in Central Chile and in Quaternary strata in California , USA

## Species

Species within the genus Kurtzia include:

* Kurtzia aethra (Dall, 1919)[2]
* Kurtzia arteaga (Dall & Bartsch, 1910)[3]
* Kurtzia elenensis McLean & Poorman, 1971[4]
* Kurtzia ephaedra (Dall, 1919)[5]
* Kurtzia granulatissima (Moerch, 1860)[6]
* Kurtzia humboldti McLean & Poorman, 1971[7]
* † Kurtzia kilburni C. Nielsen, 2003

Species brought into synonymy

* Kurtzia aegialea W.H. Dall, 1919 : synonym of Kurtzia granulatissima (O.A.L. Mörch, 1860)
* Kurtzia gordoni Bartsch, 1944: synonym of Kurtzia arteaga (Dall & Bartsch, 1910)

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kurtzia. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 7 August 2011.
2. ↑ Kurtzia aethra (Dall, 1919). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
3. ↑ Kurtzia arteaga (Dall & Bartsch, 1910). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
4. ↑ Kurtzia elenensis McLean & Poorman, 1971. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
5. ↑ Kurtzia ephaedra (Dall, 1919). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
6. ↑ Kurtzia granulatissima (Moerch, 1860). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
7. ↑ Kurtzia humboldti McLean & Poorman, 1971. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.

## External links

* Bartsch, P, Some turrid mollusks of Monterey Bay and vicinity; Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, v. 57 p. 57-68
* Todd, Jonathan A. "Systematic list of gastropods in the Panama Paleontology Project collections." Budd and Foster 2006 (1996)
* Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273-308
* Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Mangeliidae
* Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.

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