Adelocythara is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Mangeliidae. MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Adelocythara Woodring, 1928. Accessed through: World Register of Marine * At: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1719492 on 2026-09-10
Description (Original description) The small shell is slender. The protoconch is stout, broad-tipped, consisting of between one and a half and two whorls, the last quarter whorl or less bearing a few fine protractive axial riblets.
The aperture is long,-and narrow. The siphonal canal is very shortand barely emarginate. The outer lip is varicose. The anal notch is wideand moderately deep. The interior of the outer lip bears a denticle below the notch. The inner lip is smooth.The parietal callus is thickened adjoining anal notch.
The sculpture consists of axial ribs, primary spiral threads, and minute spirals roughened by minute axials (frosted sculpture). W. P. Woodring. 1928. Miocene Molluscs from Bowden, Jamaica. Part 2: Gastropods and discussion of results . Contributions to the Geology and Palaeontology of the West Indies
Distribution This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off Jamaica, Honduras, Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada and Puerto Rico.
Fossils were found in Miocene strata in Jamaica.
Species Species within the genus Adelocythara include: Adelocythara aliceae Fallon & Bouchet, 2026 Adelocythara bouillantensis Fallon & Bouchet, 2026 Adelocythara caquetio Fallon, 2026 Adelocythara caretensis Fallon & Bouchet, 2026 Adelocythara isabelensis Fallon, 2026 † Adelocythara micropleura (Guppy, 1867) Adelocythara portlouisensis Fallon & Bouchet, 2026 † Adelocythara primolevis Woodring, 1928 Adelocythara troyolsoni Fallon, 2026 Adelocythara youloumani Fallon, 2026
References
Fallon, P. J., Zuccon, D. & Bouchet, P. (2026). Mangeliidae (Gastropoda: Conoidea) of the French West Indies and other Western Atlantic regions: a monograph. European Journal of Taxonomy. 1089:1-647.