Graciliclava

Graciliclava
Shell of Graciliclava costata (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Gastropoda
Clade:Caenogastropoda
Clade:Hypsogastropoda
Clade:Neogastropoda
Superfamily:Conoidea
Family:Horaiclavidae
Genus:Graciliclava
Shuto, 1983[1]
Type species
Graciliclava mackayensis Shuto, 1983
Species

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Graciliclava is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Horaiclavidae.[2]

It was previously included within the subfamily Crassispirinae, family Turridae.[2] Killburn in 1994 was of the opinion that Graciliclava was closely related to and possibly a subgenus of Anacithara [3][4]

Species

Species within the genus Graciliclava include:

Species brought into synonymy
  • Graciliclava mackayensis Shuto, 1983: synonym of Graciliclava costata (Hedley, 1922)

References

  1. ↑ Shuto (1983). Memoirs Fac. Sci. Kyushu Univ. (Geol.) 25(1): 11.
  2. 1 2 Bouchet, P. (2015). Graciliclava. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=432467 on 2016-12-17
  3. ↑ Kilburn, R.N. (1994) Turridae (s.l.) (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 7. Subfamily Crassispirinae, section 2. Annals of the Natal Museum, 35, 177–228.
  4. ↑ Bonfitto, Antonio, and Mauro Morassi. "Two new Horaiclavus (Horaiclavidae, Conoidea) species from the Indo-Pacific region." Zootaxa 3821.1 (2014): 146-150.
  5. ↑ Graciliclava costatus (Hedley, 1922).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 15 April 2010.


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