Aliceia

{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}}

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| image_caption = Shell of Aliceia sp. (museum specimen in MNHN, Paris)

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| taxon = Aliceia

| authority = Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1897

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| type_species = Aliceia aenigmatica

| type_species_authority = Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1897

| subdivision_ranks = Species

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Aliceia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae.{{WRMS species|137805|Aliceia Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1897||14 April 2010}}

The taxonomic position of Aliceia is rather uncertain. It may as well belong to the family Turridae (resembling genus Lucerapex) or to the family Clathurellidae (resembling Pleurotomoides or Famelica). The species Thatcheriasyrinx sp. Kay, 1979 may also belong to Aliceia.Alexander Sysoev , Mollusca Gastropoda: New deep-water turrid gastropods (Conoidea) from eastern Indonesia; Alain Crosnier & Philippe Bouchet, (coordonné par). Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Volume 16. Mém. Mus. natn. Hist, nat., 172: 325-355. Paris {{ISBN|2-85653-506-2}}.

Species

Species within the genus Aliceia include:

  • Aliceia aenigmatica Dautzenberg & Fischer H., 1897{{WRMS species|139208|Aliceia aenigmatica Dautzenberg & Fischer H., 1897||14 April 2010}}
  • Aliceia okutanii Sasaki & Warén, 2007{{WRMS species|432939|Aliceia okutanii Sasaki & Warén, 2007||14 April 2010}}
  • Aliceia simplicissima (Thiele, 1925){{WRMS species|432940|Aliceia simplicissima (Thiele, 1925)||14 April 2010}}

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