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.
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