Pyrgocythara plicosa

Pyrgocythara plicosa, common name the plicate mangelia, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.^[1]

Pyrgocythara plicosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Pyrgocythara
Species:	P. plicosa
Binomial name
Pyrgocythara plicosa (C. B. Adams, 1850)
Synonyms[1]
Clathurella jewetti Stearns, 1873 Mangelia plicosa C. B. Adams, 1850 Pleurotoma brunnea Perkins, 1869 Pleurotoma plicata C. B. Adams, 1840 (invalid: junior homonym of Pleurotoma plicata Lamarck, 1804; Pleurotoma plicosa and P. brunnea Perkins, 1869 are replacement names) Pleurotoma plicosa (C. B. Adams, 1850) Pyrgospira plicosa (C. B. Adams, 1850)

Description

The size of the shell varies between 6 mm and 13 mm.

Distribution

P. plicosa can be found in Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea waters, ranging from the coast of Massachusetts, United States to south to Panama.^[2] Fossils have been found in Quaternary strata of the United States (Florida, New Jersey) age range: 0.126 to 0.012 Ma.