Callipara
| Callipara | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Volutidae |
| Subfamily: | Volutinae |
| Genus: | Callipara Gray, 1847 |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Callipara is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Volutidae.[1]
Species
Species within the genus Callipara include:
- Callipara aikeni Veldsman, 2012
- Callipara aphrodite (Bondarev, 1999)[2]
- Callipara bullatiana (Weaver & du Pont, 1967)[3]
- Callipara kurodai (Kawamura, 1964)[4]
- Callipara queketti (Smith, 1901)[5]
- Callipara veldsmani Veldsman, 2012
- Callipara zululandensis Veldsman, 2012
- Species brought into synonymy
- Callipara africana (Reeve, 1856)[6] accepted as Festilyria africana (Reeve, 1856)
- Subgenus Callipara (Festilyria) Pilsbry & Olsson, 1954 accepted as Festilyria Pilsbry & Olsson, 1954
- Callipara duponti (Weaver, 1968)[7] accepted as Festilyria duponti Weaver, 1968
- Callipara festiva (Lamarck, 1811)[8] accepted as Festilyria festiva (Lamarck, 1811)
- Callipara ponsonbyi (Smith, 1901)[9] accepted as Festilyria ponsonbyi (E.A. Smith, 1801)
Description
Some have a radula with vestigial lateral teeth. Teleoconch whorls are shouldered and nodulose, with the three early whorls axially ribbed. They often have with a black blotch near the siphonal canal and the upper part of the aperture. All species have a shoulder, except in Callipara bullatiana where the well-defined shoulder changes at a slight angle. [1]
Distribution
The snails of this genus are found in the Indian Ocean off East Africa.
References
- 1 2 3 Callipara Gray, 1847. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 June 2012.
- ↑ Callipara aphrodite (Bondarev, 1999). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
- ↑ Callipara bullatiana (Weaver & du Pont, 1967). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
- ↑ Callipara kurodai (Kawamura, 1964). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
- ↑ Callipara queketti (Smith, 1901). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
- ↑ Callipara africana (Reeve, 1856). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
- ↑ Callipara duponti (Weaver, 1968). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
- ↑ Callipara festiva (Lamarck, 1811). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
- ↑ Callipara ponsonbyi (Smith, 1901). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
- Bail, P & Poppe, G. T. 2001. A conchological iconography: a taxonomic introduction of the recent Volutidae. Hackenheim-Conchbook, 30 pp, 5 pl. (updated October 2008 for WoRMS)
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