Glyptaesopus

Glyptaesopus
Glyptaesopus phylira
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Borsoniidae
Genus: Glyptaesopus
Pilsbry & Olsson, 1941
Type species
Aesopus xenicus
Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932

Glyptaesopus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Borsoniidae[1]

Description

The small shell is slender and contains 5½ sculptured whorls with weakly incised sutures. The aperture is long and narrow and has a thin outer lip. The siphonal canal is short.[2]

Species

Species within the genus Glyptaesopus include:

References

  1. ^ Glyptaesopus. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 August 2011.
  2. ^ Peter Jung,Miocene and Pliocene Mollusks from Trinidad; Bulletins of American paleontology v. 55 no. 247 p. 555
  3. ^ Glyptaesopus phylira (Dall, 1919). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
  4. ^ Glyptaesopus proctorae (M. Smith, 1936). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
  5. ^ Glyptaesopus xenicus (Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
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