Asthenotoma

This genus, almost entirely represented by extinct species, is of slender form and elevated, evenly and gradually acuminate spire, conspicuous development of the spiral lyrae and short aperture. It should evidently be considered especially with Trypanotoma and allies, but it is somewhat of an annectant form, as the American species at least have true ribbing on the nepionic whorls which becomes completely lost on the larger volutions of the shell. It is therefore one of those puzzling exceptions which render an arrangement of the genera in a dichotomous table so difficult and unsatisfactory. The embryo in the type, Pleurotoma basteroti Desm., of the European Miocene, is said by Cossmann to be paucispiral, but the drawing shows a multispiral protoconch. This is, however, a matter of minor importance. The

anal sinus is broad, sometimes very feeble and always median in position on the spire whorls though not identified with any particular one or more of the subequal and rather coarse flat spirals. The beak has no external oblique tumidity. There can be but little doubt, in view of geographical variations and wide distribution of this genus, that Endiatoma, of Cossmann, should be regarded as a synonym or as constituting a slightly differentiated section of Asthenotoma.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2927060 Casey T.L. (1904) Notes on the Pleurotomidae with description of some new genera and species. Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis, 14, 123–170] {{PD-notice}}

Species within the genus Asthenotoma include:

• † Asthenotoma angusta Lozouet, 2017
• † Asthenotoma bipunctula (S. V. Wood, 1848)
• † Asthenotoma colus (Dujardin, 1837)
• † Asthenotoma conulus (Grateloup, 1845)
• † Asthenotoma crenulata Gougerot, 1966 Gougerot, L., 1966. - Présentation de cinq espèces nouvelles et de nouveaux représentants de gastéropodes dans le Lutétien et le Bartonien du Bassin de Paris. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 7("1965"): 296-301, sér. 7 série
• † Asthenotoma falunica Peyrot, 1938
• † Asthenotoma festiva (Hörnes, 1854)
• † Asthenotoma juvenilis Lozouet, 2015
• † Asthenotoma lamothei (Dautzenberg, 1910)
• † Asthenotoma lanceolata Ceulemans, Van Dingenen & Landau, 2018
• † Asthenotoma ligata (Defrance, 1826)
• † Asthenotoma meneghinii (Mayer, 1868)
• † Asthenotoma newtoni de Boury, 1899
• † Asthenotoma ornata (Defrance, 1826)
• † Asthenotoma pannus (Basterot, 1825)
• † Asthenotoma praepannus Lozouet, 2017
• † Asthenotoma pupa (Edwards, 1861)
• Asthenotoma texta (Thiele, 1925) (original combination: Turris (Hemipleurotoma) texta)
• † Asthenotoma tuberculata (Pusch, 1837)
• † Asthenotoma vulcani Lozouet, 2017

;Taxon inquirendum:

• Oligotoma sirpata Jousseaume, 1891

;Synonyms:

• Subgenus Asthenotoma (Drilliola) Locard, 1897: synonym of Drilliola Locard, 1897
• Asthenotoma (Drilliola) emendata (Monterosato, 1872): synonym of Drilliola emendata (Monterosato, 1872)
• Asthenotoma cicatrigula Hedley, 1922: synonym of Tomopleura cicatrigula (Hedley, 1922)
• Asthenotoma eva (Thiele, 1925): synonym of Maoritomella eva (Thiele, 1925)
• †Asthenotoma exbasteroti Peyrot, 1931: synonym of † Drilliola basteroti (Des Moulins, 1842)
• Asthenotoma komakimonos Otuka, 1935: synonym of Pulsarella komakimonos (Otuka, 1935)
• † Asthenotoma obesa Peyrot, 1931: synonym of † Drilliola obesa (Peyrot, 1931)(original combination)
• Asthenotoma spiralis (E. A. Smith, 1872): synonym of Tomopleura spiralissima Gofas & Rolán, 2009
• Asthenotoma subtilinea Hedley, 1918: synonym of Tomopleura subtilinea (Hedley, 1918)
• † Asthenotoma tricarinata Peyrot, 1931: synonym of † Boettgeriola tricarinata (Peyrot, 1931) (original combination)
• Asthenotoma vertebrata (E. A. Smith, 1875): synonym of Tomopleura vertebrata (E. A. Smith, 1875)

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• [https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13815192 Harris G. F. & Burrows H. W. (1891). The Eocene and Oligocene beds of the Paris basin. Geologists' Association, London 129 pp.: page(s): 113]
• [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/124597#page/24/mode/1up Bellardi L. (1875). Novae pleurotomidarum Pedimonti et Liguriae fossilium: dispositionis prodromus. Bullettino della Società Malacologica Italiana. 1: 16-24]
• [https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mollus/eyr017 Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77, 273-308]
• [https://science.mnhn.fr/institution/mnhn/collection/im/item/2000-2875 MNHN, Paris: Asthenotoma crenulata]

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