Platycythara

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| taxon = Platycythara

| authority = Woodring, 1928

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| type_species = † Platycythara eurystoma Woodring, 1928

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Platycythara is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.{{WRMS species|415831|Platycythara ||7 August 2011}}

Species

Species within the genus Platycythara include:

Platycythara curta (Dall, 1919){{WRMS species|434650|Platycythara curta (Dall, 1919)||16 April 2010}}
Platycythara elata (Dall, 1889){{WRMS species|420354|Platycythara elata (Dall, 1889)||16 April 2010}}
Platycythara electra (Dall, 1919){{WRMS species|434651|Platycythara electra (Dall, 1919)||16 April 2010}}
† Platycythara eurystoma W.P. Woodring, 1928

;Species brought intoi synonymy:

† Platycythara metria (Dall 1903): synonym of Vitricythara metria (Dall, 1903)

Woodring, W. P. "Miocene molluscs from Bowden, Jamaica. Part 2: gastropods and discussion of results. Contributions to the geology and palaeontology of the West Indies." Carnegie Institute Washington Publication 385 (1928): 144–201.

[https://archive.today/20120710161524/http://mollus.oxfordjournals.org/content/77/3/273.full Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273-308]
{{cite journal | last1 = Tucker | first1 = J.K. | year = 2004 | title = Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda) | url = http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2004f/z00682f.pdf | format = PDF | journal = Zootaxa | volume = 682 | pages = 1–1295 }}
[http://www.bagniliggia.it/WMSD/HtmFamily/MANGELIIDAEL.htm Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Mangeliidae]