Cryptomella

Cryptomella
Shell of Cryptomella oceanica (holotype at the Smithsonian Institution)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	incertae sedis
Genus:	Cryptomella Finlay, 1924
Type species
† Leucosyrinx alta transenna Suter, 1917
Synonyms
Phenatoma (Cryptomella) Finlay, 1924

Cryptomella is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks, unassigned to a family within the superfamily Conoidea.

Species

Species within the genus Cryptomella include:

• Cryptomella ebor (Okutani, 1968)
• Cryptomella oceanica (Dall, 1908)
• † Cryptomella transenna (Suter, 1917)

References

• Higo, S. & Goto, Y. (1993) A Systematic List of Molluscan Shells from the Japanese Is. and the Adjacent Area. Elle Scientific Publications, Yao, Japan, xxii + 693 + 13 + 149 pp

External links

• Dall W.H. (1908). Reports on the dredging operations off the west coast of Central America to the Galapagos, to the west coast of Mexico, and in the Gulf of California, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, carried on by the U.S. Fish Commission steamer "Albatross," during 1891, Lieut.-Commander Z.L. Tanner, U.S.N., commanding. XXXVII. Reports on the scientific results of the expedition to the eastern tropical Pacific, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U.S. Fish Commission steamer "Albatross", from October, 1904 to March, 1905, Lieut.-Commander L.M. Garrett, U.S.N., commanding. XIV. The Mollusca and Brachiopoda. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 43(6): 205-487, pls 1-22