Enaeta

Enaeta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Volutidae
Subfamily: Volutinae
Genus: Enaeta
H. & A. Adams, 1853
Synonyms[1]

Lyria (Enaeta) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853

Enaeta is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Volutidae.[1]

Description

The small shell has an ovate to fusiform shape. The protoconch is small and smooth. The teleoconch is covered with axial ribs. There is a conspicuous tooth-like blunt nodule on the midpoint of the outer lip. The radula is uniserial with an interlocking central cusp.[1]

Distribution

This species occurs from the Caribbean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean south to Brazil and Fernando de Noronha Islands.

Species

Species within the genus Enaeta include:

References

  1. 1 2 3 Enaeta H. & A. Adams, 1853.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 31 August 2012.
  2. ↑ Enaeta barnesii (Gray, 1825).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  3. ↑ Enaeta cumingii (Broderip, 1832).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  4. ↑ Enaeta cylleniformis (Sowerby I, 1844).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  5. ↑ Enaeta guildingii (Sowerby I, 1844).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  6. ↑ Enaeta leonardhilli Petuch, 1982.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  7. ↑ Enaeta reevei (Dall, 1907).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  • Bail, P & Poppe, G. T. 2001. A conchological iconography: a taxonomic introduction of the recent Volutidae. Hackenheim-Conchbook, 30 pp, 5 pl


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