Glyptaesopus

{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}}

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| image_caption =Glyptaesopus phylira

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| taxon = Glyptaesopus

| authority = Pilsbry & Olsson, 1941

| type_species = Aesopus xenicus

| type_species_authority = Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932

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Glyptaesopus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Borsoniidae{{WRMS species|415427|Glyptaesopus ||6 August 2011}}

Description

The small shell is slender and contains 5½ sculptured whorls with weakly incised sutures. The aperture is long and narrow and has a thin outer lip. The siphonal canal is short.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10654470#page/581/mode/1up Peter Jung,Miocene and Pliocene Mollusks from Trinidad; Bulletins of American paleontology v. 55 no. 247 p. 555]

Species

Species within the genus Glyptaesopus include:

References

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  • Pilsbry and Olsson, 1941, Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia. Proc. vol. 93. p. 36.
  • [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8517063#page/25/mode/1up Radwin (1968), The Systematic Position of Glyptaesopus; The Nautilus vol. 82 (1) ]
  • Keen, A. M. 1971. Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Marine mollusks from Baja California to Peru, ed. 2. Stanford University Press. xv, 1064 pp., 22 pls.