Cochlespira

Cochlespira
Apertural view of a shell of Cochlespira radiata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Gastropoda
Clade:Caenogastropoda
Clade:Hypsogastropoda
Clade:Neogastropoda
Superfamily:Conoidea
Family:Cochlespiridae
Genus:Cochlespira
Conrad, 1865 [1]
Type species
Pleurotoma cristata
Conrad, T.A., 1847
Synonyms[2]
  • Coronasyrinx Powell, 1944
  • Pagodasyrinx Shuto, 1969
  • Tahusyrinx Powell, 1942

Cochlespira is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cochlespiridae.[2][3]

Description

The species in this genus are characterized by their elongated fusiform spire and a long siphonal canal. The whorls show on their edge spinose projections.[4]

Distribution

Species from this genus occur in very deep water in the Indo-West Pacific and off Australia (Queensland).

Species

Species within the genus Cochlespira include:

References

  1. ↑ Conrad, 1865 [American Journal of Conchology, 1(1): 19
  2. 1 2 Cochlespira Conrad, 1865.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 29 December 2010.
  3. ↑ P. Bouchet; Yu. I. Kantor; A. Sysoev; N. Puillandre (2011). "A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda)". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77 (3): 273–308. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr017.
  4. ↑ Indo-Pacific mollusca; Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Delaware Museum of Natural History; v. 2 # 9-10: p. 403
  5. ↑ Cochlespira beuteli Powell, 1969.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
  6. ↑ Cochlespira cedonulli (Reeve, 1843).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
  7. ↑ Cochlespira crispulata (Martens, 1901).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
  8. ↑ Cochlespira elegans (Dall, 1881).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
  9. ↑ Cochlespira elongata Simone, 1999.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
  10. ↑ Cossmann M., Essais de Paléoconchologie comparée, 7° livraison, in-8°, Paris, 1906; p.221, pl. XIV, fig. 13
  11. ↑ Cochlespira kuroharai (Kuroda, 1959).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
  12. ↑ Cochlespira pulchella (Schepman, 1913).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
  13. ↑ Cochlespira pulcherrissima (Kira, 1955).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
  14. ↑ Cochlespira radiata (Dall, 1889).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
  15. ↑ Cochlespira simillima Powell, 1969.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
  16. ↑ Cochlespira travancorica (Smith E. A., 1896).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
  17. ↑ Cochlespira zanzibarica Sysoev, 1996.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1966. The molluscan families Speightiidae and Turridae, an evaluation of the valid taxa, both Recent and fossil, with list of characteristic species. Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum. Auckland, New Zealand 5: 1-184, pls 1-23
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1969. The family Turridae in the Indo-Pacific. Part. 2. The subfamily Turriculinae. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 2(10): 207-415, pls 188-324
  • Long, D.C. 1981. Late Eocene and early Oligocene Turridae (Gastropoda: Prosobranchiata) of the Brown's Creek and Glen Aire Clays, Victoria, Australia. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 42: 15-55
  • Wilson, B. 1994. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp.
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