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Famelica Bouchet & Waren 1980

Description

Famelica Bouchet & Warén, 1980

Type species: Pleurotomella catharinae Verrill & Smith, 1884 in Verrill, 1884 by original designation.

Remarks: This genus is characterized by a very slender, spirally sculptured shell of small to moderate size. It shares with Aliceia a similar protoconch, sculptured with a middle keel and axial riblets below it. The type species, F. catharinae, has a long anterior siphonal canal and a moderately deep anal sinus.

Notes

Published as part of Figueira, Raquel Medeiros Andrade & Absalão, Ricardo Silva, 2012, Deep-water Raphitomidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Conoidea) from the Campos Basin, southeast Brazil, pp. 1-27 in Zootaxa 3527 on page 6, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.210977

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Raphitomidae
Genus
Famelica
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Neogastropoda
Phylum
Mollusca
Scientific name authorship
Bouchet & Waren
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Famelica Bouchet, 1980 sec. Figueira & Absalão, 2012

References

  • Bouchet, P. & Waren, A. (1980) Revision of the Northeast Atlantic Bathyal and abyssal Turridae (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies, Supplement 8, 1 - 119.
  • Verrill, A. E. (1884) Second catalogue of Mollusca, recently added to the fauna of New-England coast and adjacent parts of the Atlantic, consisting mostly of deep-sea species, with notes on others previously recorded. Transactions of the Conneticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 6 (1), 139 - 294.