Spirotropis (gastropod)

Spirotropis
Drawing of Spirotropis patagonica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Drilliidae
Genus:	Spirotropis G.O. Sars, 1878
Type species
† Pleurotoma carinata Bivona, 1838

Spirotropis is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Drilliidae.^{[1] [2]}

Species

Species within the genus Spirotropis include:

• Spirotropis agamedea (Dall, W.H., 1919)
• Spirotropis aganactica (Watson, 1886)
• Spirotropis azorica Bouchet & Warén, 1980
• † Spirotropis badensis R. Janssen, 1993
• † Spirotropis bainbridgensis Durham, 1944
• † Spirotropis calodius Moore, 1963
• † Spirotropis campi Durham, 1944
• † Spirotropis carinata (Bivona, 1838)
• Spirotropis centimata (Dall, 1889)
• † Spirotropis claibornica Garvie, 1996
• Spirotropis confusa (Seguenza, 1880)
• Spirotropis ephamilla Verrill, 1884
• Spirotropis eurytima Morassi, 1998
• Spirotropis genilda (Dall, 1908)
• † Spirotropis gramensis R. Janssen, 1993
• Spirotropis laodice (Dall, 1919)
• Spirotropis limula Martens, 1904
• Spirotropis lithocolleta (Watson, 1881)
• † Spirotropis modiolus (de Cristofori & Jan, 1832)
• Spirotropis monterosatoi (Locard, 1897)
• Spirotropis patagonica (d'Orbigny, 1841)
• Spirotropis phaeacra (Watson, 1881)
• Spirotropis remota Powell, 1958
• Spirotropis stirophora (Watson, 1881)
• Spirotropis studeriana (Martens, 1878)
• Spirotropis tmeta (Watson, 1881)

Species brought into synonymy

• Spirotropis azoricus Bouchet & Warén, 1980 accepted as Spirotropis azorica Bouchet & Warén, 1980
• Spirotropis centimatus (Dall, 1889) accepted as Spirotropis centimata (Dall, 1889)
• Spirotropis clytotropis Sykes, 1906 accepted as Ancistrosyrinx clytotropis (Sykes, 1906)
• Spirotropis megalacme Sykes, 1906 accepted as Drilliola megalacme (Sykes, 1906)
• Spirotropis melvilli Sykes, 1906 accepted as Micropleurotoma melvilli (Sykes, 1906)

References

1. Spirotropis .  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 2 November 2011.
2. P. Bouchet, Yu. I. Kantor, A. Sysoev & N. Puillandre (2011). "A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda)". Journal of Molluscan Studies 77 (3): 273–308. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr017.

• Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180-213
• Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.

External links

• * Janssen, R. 1993. Taxonomy, evolution and spreading of the turrid genus Spirotropis (Gastropoda: Turridae). Scripta Geologica Special Issue 2:237-261, 2 figs., 5 pls.