Cookia

Cookia
Cookia sulcata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea (superfamily)
Family: Turbinidae
Genus: Cookia
Lesson, 1832[1]
Type species
Cookia novaezelandiae Lesson, 1832

Cookia is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.

Cookia is sometimes treated as a subgenus of the genus Bolma.

The genus was named after Captain James Cook.

Species

Species within the genus Cookia include:

Species brought into synonymy

References

  1. Lesson R. P. (1832). Illustr. de Zool. (5): pl. 15.

Further reading


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