Genota
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| Apertural view of a shell of Genota papalis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Borsoniidae |
| Genus: | Genota H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 |
| Type species | |
| Murex mitriformis Wood W., 1828 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Genota is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Borsoniidae.[1]
Description
The shell is narrowly obconic and cancellated. The body whorl gradually tapers to a but slightly developed siphonal canal. The sinus of the lip is wide and shallow. The aperture is long and narrow with subparallel margins. The operculum is unguiculate.[2]
Species
Species within the genus Genota include:
- Genota mitriformis (Wood W., 1828)
- Genota nicklesi Knudsen, 1952[3]
- Genota papalis (Reeve, 1843)
- † Genota ramosa (Basterot, 1825)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Genota marchadi [sic] : synonym of Genota nicklesi Knudsen, 1952
- Genota marchandi Pin, 1996 : synonym of Genota nicklesi Knudsen, 1952
- Genota mitraeformis (Kiener, 1839) : synonym of Genota mitriformis (Wood W., 1828)
- Genota nigeriensis Vera-Peláez, 2004 : synonym of Genota nicklesi Knudsen, 1952
- Genota vafra Sykes, 1905 : synonym of Genota mitriformis (Wood W., 1828)
References
- ^ a b Bouchet, P. (2015). Genota H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=225379 on 2016-03-09
- ^ G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences (p. 154)
- ^ Knudsen, J. (1952). "Marine prosobranchs of tropical West Africa collected by the Atlantide Expedition, 1945–46". ' Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening i Kjobenhavn. 114: 129–185, 1 fig. 12pl.
- Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77, 273-308
- Ryall P., Horro J. & Rolán E. 2013. A revision of the genus Genota H. & A. Adams, 1853 (Gastropoda: Conoidea: Borsonidae) from West Africa. Iberus, 31(2): 1-17.
External links
- Adams H. & Adams A. (1853-1858). The genera of recent Mollusca; arranged according to their organization. London, van Voorst.
- Cossmann, M. (1896). Essais de paléoconchologie comparée. Deuxième livraison. Paris, The author and Comptoir Géologique. 179 pp., 8 pls.
- Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.