''Eopleurotoma'' is an extinct
genus of
sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...
s, marine
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusks in the
family Turridae
Turridae is a taxonomic family name for a number of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea. MolluscaBase (2018). Turridae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 (1838). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Specie ...
, the turrids.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Eopleurotoma Cossmann, 1889 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1027453 on 2020-11-03]
Species
Species within the genus ''Eopleurotoma'' include:
* † ''
Eopleurotoma bella''
Tracey & Craig, 2019
* † ''
Eopleurotoma bicincta''
Tracey & Craig, 2019
* † ''
Eopleurotoma boxleyi''
Tracey & Craig, 2019
* † ''
Eopleurotoma christinae''
Tracey & Craig, 2019
* † ''
Eopleurotoma distanticosta''
(Cossmann & Pissarro, 1900)
* † ''
Eopleurotoma fluctuosa
''Eopleurotoma'' is an extinct genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turridae, the turrids.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Eopleurotoma Cossmann, 1889 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http ...
''
(Deshayes, 1865)
* † ''
Eopleurotoma fresvillensis
''Eopleurotoma'' is an extinct genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turridae, the turrids.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Eopleurotoma Cossmann, 1889 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http ...
''
(Cossmann & Pissarro, 1900)
* † ''Eopleurotoma hastula''
Tracey & Craig, 2019
* † ''Eopleurotoma longicauda''
Brébion, 1992
* † ''Eopleurotoma morelleti''
J. K. Tucker & Le Renard, 1993†
* † ''Eopleurotoma multinoda''
(Lamarck, 1804)
* † ''Eopleurotoma palmeri''
Le Renard, 1994
* † ''Eopleurotoma procera''
(Cossmann & Pissarro, 1900)
* † ''Eopleurotoma scitula''
Tracey & Craig, 2019
* † ''Eopleurotoma spreta''
(Deshayes, 1865)
* † ''Eopleurotoma undata''
(Lamarck, 1804)
* † ''Eopleurotoma vauvillensis''
Tracey & Craig, 2019
References
* Tracey S., Craig B. & Gain O. (2019). Turridae (Gastropoda, Conoidea) from the late Lutetian Eocene of the Cotentin, NW France: endemism through loss of planktotrophy?. Carnets de Voyages Paléontologiques dans le Bassin Anglo-Parisien. 5: 101-140.
External links
Cossmann M. (1889). Catalogue illustré des coquilles fossiles de l'Éocène des environs de Paris. Annales de la Société Royale Malacologique de Belgique. 24: 3-381, 12 pls.MNHN, Paris: holotype of Eopleurotoma palmeri de Boury, 1899
Turridae
Gastropod genera
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