Pleioptygma, CONRAD, 1863

Fedosov, Alexander, Puillandre, Nicolas, Herrmann, Manfred, Kantor, Yuri, Oliverio, Marco, Dgebuadze, Polina, Modica, Maria Vittoria & Bouchet, Philippe, 2018, The collapse of Mitra: molecular systematics and morphology of the Mitridae (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 183, pp. 253-337 : 321

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GENUS PLEIOPTYGMA CONRAD, 1863 View in CoL

Type species: † Voluta carolinensis Conrad 1840: 387 ; M.

Diagnosis: As no material of Pleioptygma was available for the present study, we do not provide our own diagnosis to this enigmatic and poorly studied genus, and refer to Quinn (1989).

Species included: Pleioptygma helenae (Radwin & Bibbey, 1972) 2.

Distribution: Caribbean, subtidal to upper bathyal depths.

Remarks: For remarks on the placement of Pleioptygma , see section ‘Implications of morphological studies for the taxonomy of the Mitridae’ below.