Awheaturris

Awheaturris
Shell of Awheaturris lozoueti (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Raphitomidae
Genus:	Awheaturris Beu, 1970
Type species
† Awheaturris echinata Beu, 1970
Species
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Awheaturris is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae.

Description

These species were only known from fossils in Miocene strata in the Indo-Pacific area, until Morassi & Bonfitto found a Recent species off the Philippines.

Species

Species within the genus Awheaturris include:

• † Awheaturris echinata Beu, 1970
• † Awheaturris experta (Laws, 1947)
• Awheaturris lozoueti Morassi & Bonfitto, 2013
• † Awheaturris pahaoensis Vella, 1954
• † Awheaturris quisquilia (Philippi, 1887)

References

External links

• 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
• Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Raphitomidae
• Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.

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