Scaphella
| Scaphella | |
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| A shell of Scaphella junonia | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Volutidae |
| Genus: | Scaphella Swainson, 1832[1] |
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Scaphella is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Volutidae, the volutes. [2]
Distribution
This is a tropical genus which occurs in the Western Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea.
Description
There are both living and fossil species in this genus, which first appeared in the Paleocene. . The fusiform, patterned shell is small to large. The protoconch is smooth and papilliform, often with a calcarella. The columellar plates are weak or absent. The periostracum is present, but an operculum is not. The radula is small, and variable from Y-shaped to tricuspid. [2]
Species
Species within the genus Scaphella include:[3]
- Scaphella biminiensis Oleinik, Petuch & Aley IV, 2012
- Scaphella worki Coltro J., 1998
- Subgenus Scaphella (Aurinia) A. & H. Adams, 1853
- Scaphella dubia (Broderip, 1827) - Dubious Volute
- Subgenus Scaphella (Caricellopsis) Petuch & Sargent, 2011
- Scaphella matchetti Petuch & Sargent, 2011
- Subgenus Scaphella (Scaphella)
- Scaphella atlantis Clench, 1946
- Scaphella contoyensis Emerson & Old, 1979
- Scaphella dohrni (Sowerby III, 1903)
- Scaphella evelina F. M. Bayer, 1971
- Scaphella garciai Bail, 2007
- Scaphella gaudiati Bail & Shelton, 2001
- Scaphella gouldiana (Dall, 1887)
- Scaphella junonia (Lamarck, 1804) - type species
- Scaphella luizcoutoi Coltro, 1998
- Scaphella macginnorum García & Emerson, 1987
- Scaphella neptunia (Clench & Aguayo, 1940)
- Scaphella robusta Dall, 1889
- Species brought into synonymy
- Scaphella caroli Iredale, 1924: synonym of Amoria maculata (Swainson, 1822)
- Scaphella dannevigi Verco, 1912: synonym of Livonia nodiplicata (Cox, 1910)
- Scaphella hedleyi Iredale, 1914: synonym of Amoria (Amoria) damoni Gray, 1864 represented as Amoria damoni Gray, 1864
- Scaphella moslemica Hedley, 1912: synonym of Amoria undulata (Lamarck, 1804)
- Scaphella papillaris Swainson, 1840: synonym of Ericusa papillosa (Swainson, 1822)
References
- ↑ Swainson W. J. (1832) Zool. Illust. (2)2(19), pl. 87.
- 1 2 3 Bail, P. (2012). Scaphella. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=382285 on 2012-07-09
- ↑ "searching for Scaphella". Malacolog Version 4.1.1. A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca. Accessed 18 February 2010.
- Bail, P & Poppe, G. T. 2001. A conchological iconography: a taxonomic introduction of the recent Volutidae. Hackenheim-Conchbook, 30 pp, 5 pl.
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