''Eopleurotoma'' is an extinct
genus
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sea snail
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s, marine
gastropod
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mollusk
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s in the
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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:
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Eopleurotoma bella''
Tracey & Craig, 2019
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Eopleurotoma bicincta''
Tracey & Craig, 2019
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Eopleurotoma boxleyi''
Tracey & Craig, 2019
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Eopleurotoma christinae''
Tracey & Craig, 2019
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Eopleurotoma distanticosta''
(Cossmann & Pissarro, 1900)
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Eopleurotoma fluctuosa''
(Deshayes, 1865)
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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 ...
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(Cossmann & Pissarro, 1900)
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Eopleurotoma hastula
''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 ...
''
Tracey & Craig, 2019
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Eopleurotoma longicauda
''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 ...
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Brébion, 1992
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Eopleurotoma morelleti
''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 ...
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J. K. Tucker & Le Renard, 1993†
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Eopleurotoma multinoda
''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 ...
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(Lamarck, 1804)
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Eopleurotoma palmeri
''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 ...
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Le Renard, 1994
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Eopleurotoma procera
''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 ...
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(Cossmann & Pissarro, 1900)
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Eopleurotoma scitula
''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 ...
''
Tracey & Craig, 2019
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Eopleurotoma spreta
''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 ...
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(Deshayes, 1865)
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Eopleurotoma undata
''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 ...
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(Lamarck, 1804)
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Eopleurotoma vauvillensis
''Eopleurotoma'' is an extinct genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family (biology), family Turridae, the turrids.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Eopleurotoma Cossmann, 1889 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marin ...
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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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