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:
- Glyptaesopus oldroydi (Arnold, 1903)
- Glyptaesopus phylira (Dall, 1919) {{WRMS species|433917|Glyptaesopus phylira (Dall, 1919)||16 April 2010}}
- Glyptaesopus proctorae (M. Smith, 1936) {{WRMS species|420337|Glyptaesopus proctorae (M. Smith, 1936)||16 April 2010}}
- Glyptaesopus xenicus (Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932) {{WRMS species|433918|Glyptaesopus xenicus (Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932)||16 April 2010}}
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.
External links
- [https://archive.today/20120710161524/http://mollus.oxfordjournals.org/content/77/3/273.full Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273-308.]
- {{cite journal | last1 = Tucker | first1 = J.K. | year = 2004 | title = Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda) | url = http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2004f/z00682f.pdf | format = PDF | journal = Zootaxa | volume = 682 | pages = 1–1295 }}
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