Cochlespirinae

Cochlespirinae

A live specimen of Megasurcula carpenteriana on the sea bed
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Turridae
Subfamily:	Cochlespirinae Powell, 1942
Genera
See text.

Cochlespirinae was a subfamily of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks, belonging to the family Turridae,^[1] commonly named turrids.

It has been raised to the rank of family Cochlespiridae Powell, 1942 ^[2]

Genera

Genera in the subfamily Cochlespirinae used to include:^[3]

Abyssocomitas Sysoev & Kantor, 1986
Aforia Dall, 1889
Ancistrosyrinx Dall, 1881
Anticomitas Powell, 1942
Antimelatoma Powell, 1942
Antiplanes Dall, 1902
Apiotoma Cossmann, 1889
Carinoturris Bartsch, 1944
Clavosurcula Schepman, 1913
Cochlespira Conrad, 1865
Comitas Finlay, 1926
Fusiturricula Woodring, 1928
Irenosyrinx Dall, 1908
Knefastia Dall, 1919
Leucosyrinx Dall, 1889
Marshallena Finlay, 1926
Megasurcula Casey, 1904
Micropleurotoma Thiele, 1929
Nihonia McNeil, 1961
Paracomitas Powell, 1942
Pyrgospira McLean, 1971
Rectiplanes Bartsch, 1944
Rhodopetoma Bartsch, 1944
Shutonia van der Bijl, 1993
Steiraxis Dall, 1896
Toxicochlespira Sysoev & Kantor, 1990
Vexitomina Powell, 1942

References

^ Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (Ed.) (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia 47(1-2). ISBN 3-925919-72-4. 397 pp.
^ Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77(3): 273-308
^ WoRMS - World register of marine Species

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