Genota

Genota
Apertural view of a shell of Genota papalis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Borsoniidae
Genus: Genota
H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853
Type species
Murex mitriformis
W. Wood, 1828
Synonyms
  • Genotia P. Fischer, 1883 (Invalid: unjustified emendation of Genota)
  • Genotia (Genotia) P. Fischer, 1883
  • Pleurotoma (Genota) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853
  • Turris (Genota) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 (original rank as subgenus)

Genota is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Borsoniidae.

Description

The shell is narrowly obconic and cancellated. The body whorl gradually tapers to a but slightly developed siphonal canal. The sinus of the lip is wide and shallow. The aperture is long and narrow with subparallel margins. The operculum is unguiculate.

Species

Species within the genus Genota include:

Species brought into synonymy

References

  1. 1 2 Bouchet, P. (2015). Genota H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=225379 on 2016-03-09
  2. ↑ G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences (p. 154)
  3. ↑ MNHN, Paris: Genota joleaudi
  4. ↑ Knudsen, J. (1952). "Marine prosobranchs of tropical West Africa collected by the Atlantide Expedition, 1945–46". ' Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening i Kjobenhavn. 114: 129–185, 1 fig. 12pl.