Megasurcula
| Megasurcula | |
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| A live individual of Megasurcula carpenteriana on the sea bed | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Clade: | Caenogastropoda |
| Clade: | Hypsogastropoda |
| Clade: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Pseudomelatomidae |
| Genus: | Megasurcula Casey, 1904[1] |
| Type species | |
| Pleurotoma (Surcula) carpenteriana Gabb, 1865 | |
| Species | |
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Megasurcula is a genus of medium-sized predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Pseudomelatomidae, a family previously lumped with others collectively known as turrids.[2] Species within this genus occur in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.
Species
Species within the genus Megasurcula include:
- Megasurcula carpenteriana (Gabb, 1865)
- Megasurcula granti Dall, 1944
- Megasurcula stearnsiana (Raymond, 1904)
- Megasurcula tremperiana (Dall, 1911)
References
- ↑ Casey (1904). Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis 14: 147.
- ↑ Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (Ed.); Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdes A. & Warén A. 2005. Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology, 47(1-2). ConchBooks: Hackenheim, Germany. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997. 397 pp. http://www.vliz.be/Vmdcdata/imis2/ref.php?refid=78278
External links
- Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
- Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77(3): 273-308
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