| Cochlespirinae | |
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| A live specimen of Megasurcula carpenteriana on the sea bed | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Turridae |
| Subfamily: | Cochlespirinae Powell, 1942 |
| Genera | |
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Cochlespirinae was a subfamily of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks, belonging to the family Turridae, commonly named turrids.
It has been raised to the rank of family Cochlespiridae Powell, 1942
Genera
Genera in the subfamily Cochlespirinae used to include:
- Abyssocomitas Sysoev & Kantor, 1986
- Aforia Dall, 1889
- Ancistrosyrinx Dall, 1881
- Anticomitas Powell, 1942
- Antimelatoma Powell, 1942
- Antiplanes Dall, 1902
- Apiotoma Cossmann, 1889
- Carinoturris Bartsch, 1944
- Clavosurcula Schepman, 1913
- Cochlespira Conrad, 1865
- Comitas Finlay, 1926
- Fusiturricula Woodring, 1928
- Irenosyrinx Dall, 1908
- Knefastia Dall, 1919
- Leucosyrinx Dall, 1889
- Marshallena Finlay, 1926
- Megasurcula Casey, 1904
- Micropleurotoma Thiele, 1929
- Nihonia McNeil, 1961
- Paracomitas Powell, 1942
- Pyrgospira McLean, 1971
- Rectiplanes Bartsch, 1944
- Rhodopetoma Bartsch, 1944
- Shutonia van der Bijl, 1993
- Steiraxis Dall, 1896
- Toxicochlespira Sysoev & Kantor, 1990
- Vexitomina Powell, 1942
References
- Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (Ed.) (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia 47(1-2). ISBN 3-925919-72-4. 397 pp.
- Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77(3): 273-308
- WoRMS - World register of marine Species
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