Aforia

The shell resembles Irenosyrinx, but with stronger sculpture with narrow, low ribs and with a paucispiral, elongate operculum, bearing such a relation to the normal species of Turris as Mohnia bears to Chrysodomus. The nucleus is terminal. [https://archive.org/details/mobot31753003646038 W.H. Dall (1908) Reports on the Mollusca and Brachiopoda, Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. vol. 43] (described as Steiraxis)

Gastropods of this genus are among the largest members of the family Cochlespiridae in the Pacific Ocean, with adult shell sizes reaching up to 92 mm.

Species of this genus inhabit the Pacific Ocean, the southwestern Atlantic Ocean and the southeastern Indian Ocean; also in the cold waters off Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego, the Falkland Islands and the South Shetlands. [https://www.gbif.org/species/2305265 Gbif.org: Aforia - distribution]

These species are predominantly found in sublittoral and relatively deep waters. However, detailed descriptions of the specific composition of Aforia in bathyal and abyssal environments are sparse. There is limited information on the distribution of these species, and data on their anatomy are almost nonexistent. [https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42468003 Sysoev, A. V.; Kantor, Y. I. (1987). Deep-sea gastropods of the genus Aforia (Turridae) of the Pacific: species composition, systematics, and functional morphology of the digestive system. Veliger. 30(2): 105-126.]

Species within the genus Aforia include:

• Aforia abyssalis Sysoev & Kantor, 1987{{WRMS species|432903|Aforia abyssalis Sysoev & Kantor, 1987||16 April 2010}}
• † Aforia canalomos (Stilwell & Zinsmeister, 1992)
• Aforia circinata (Dall, 1873){{WRMS species|432904|Aforia circinata (Dall, 1873)||16 April 2010}}
• Aforia crebristriata (Dall, 1908){{WRMS species|432595|Aforia crebristriata (Dall, 1908)||16 April 2010}}
• Aforia goniodes (Watson, 1881){{WRMS species|432905|Aforia goniodes (Watson, 1881)||16 April 2010}}
• Aforia goodei (Dall, 1890){{WRMS species|432906|Aforia goodei (Dall, 1890)||16 April 2010}}
• Aforia hedleyi (Dell, 1990)
• Aforia hypomela (Dall, 1889)
• Aforia indomaris Sysoev & Kantor, 1988{{WRMS species|432596|Aforia indomaris Sysoev & Kantor, 1988||16 April 2010}}
• Aforia inoperculata Sysoev & Kantor, 1988{{WRMS species|432908|Aforia inoperculata Sysoev & Kantor, 1988||16 April 2010}}
• Aforia kincaidi (Dall, 1919){{WRMS species|432910|Aforia kincaidi (Dall, 1919)||16 April 2010}}
• Aforia kupriyanovi Sysoev & Kantor, 1987{{WRMS species|432911|Aforia kupriyanovi Sysoev & Kantor, 1987||16 April 2010}}
• Aforia magnifica (Strebel, 1908){{WRMS species|197026|Aforia magnifica (Strebel, 1908)||16 April 2010}}
• Aforia moskalevi Sysoev & Kantor, 1987{{WRMS species|432913|Aforia moskalevi Sysoev & Kantor, 1987||16 April 2010}}
• Aforia multispiralis Dell, 1990{{WRMS species|197027|Aforia multispiralis Dell, 1990||16 April 2010}}
• Aforia obesa Pastorino & Sánchez, 2016
• Aforia persimilis (Dall, 1890)
• Aforia serranoi Gofas, Kantor & Luque, 2014
• Aforia staminea (Watson, 1881){{WRMS species|432916|Aforia staminea (Watson, 1881)||16 April 2010}}
• Aforia tasmanica Sysoev & Kantor, 1988{{WRMS species|432594|Aforia tasmanica Sysoev & Kantor, 1988||16 April 2010}}
• Aforia trilix (Watson, 1881){{WRMS species|197028|Aforia trilix (Watson, 1881)||16 April 2010}}
• Aforia watsoni Kantor, Harasewych & Puillandre, 2016 (interim unpublished)

;Extinct species from the Oligocene in Northern America:

• † Aforia addicotti Javidpour, 1973
• † Aforia campbelli Durham 1944
• † Aforia dallamensis (Weaver, 1916)
• † Aforia ecuadoriana Olsson 1964 (Pliocene of Ecuador)
• † Aforia tricarinata Addicott, 1966
• † Aforia wardi (Tegland, 1933)

;Species brought into synonymy:

• Aforia aulaca (Dall, 1896): synonym of Steiraxis aulaca (Dall, 1896)
• Aforia chosenensis Bartsch, 1945: synonym of Aforia circinata (Dall, 1873)
• Aforia diomedea Bartsch, 1945: synonym of Aforia circinata (Dall, 1873)
• Aforia gonoides (Watson, 1881 : synonym of Aforia goniodes (Watson, 1881)
• Aforia hondoana (Dall, 1925):{{WRMS species|432907|Aforia hondoana (Dall, 1925)||16 April 2010}} synonym of Aforia circinata (Dall, 1873)
• Aforia insignis (Jeffreys, 1883): synonym of Aforia circinata (Dall, 1873)
• Aforia japonica Bartsch, 1945: synonym of Aforia circinata (Dall, 1873)
• Aforia lepta (Watson, 1881):{{WRMS species|432912|Aforia lepta (Watson, 1881)||16 April 2010}} synonym of Aforia watsoni Kantor, Harasewych & Puillandre, 2016
• Aforia okhotskensis Bartsch, 1945:{{WRMS species|432914|Aforia okhotskensis Bartsch, 1945||16 April 2010}} synonym of Aforia circinata (Dall, 1873)
• Aforia sakhalinensis Bartsch, 1945:{{WRMS species|432915|Aforia sakhalinensis Bartsch, 1945||16 April 2010}} synonym of Aforia circinata (Dall, 1873)

{{Reflist}}

• Bozzetti L. (1997) Description of a new genus and a new species (Gastropoda: Turridae, Turriculinae) from the Kerguelen Islands, southern Indian Ocean / Descrizione di un nuovo genere ed una nuova specie (Gastropoda: Turridae, Turriculinae) dalle Isole Kerguelen, Oceano Indiano meridionale. World Shells 23: 42–44
• Wiese V. (2001) Comments on a "new" turrid species from Kerguelen. Schriften zur Malakozoologie 18: 33–34

==External links==

• [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yu_Kantor/publication/262455000_A_new_Aforia_Gastropoda_Conoidea_Cochlespiridae_from_Galicia_Bank_NW_Iberian_Peninsula_Una_nueva_Aforia_Gastropoda_Conoidea_Cochlespiridae_del_banco_de_Galicia_NO_Peninsula_Iberica/links/00b7d537c54696319c000000.pdf GOFAS, Serge, Yuri KANTOR, and Ángel A. LUQUE. "A new Aforia (Gastropoda: Conoidea: Cochlespiridae) from Galicia Bank (NW Iberian Peninsula)." (2014): 45–51.]
• [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42468005#page/120/mode/1up Sysoev & Kantor, Deep-sea gastropods of the genus Aforia (Turridae) of the Pacific: Species composition, Systematics, and functional morphology of the digerstive system; The Veliger, California Malacozoological Society Northern California Malacozoological Club v.30 (1987-1988)]

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