''Glyptaesopus'' is a

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s in the

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Borsoniidae Borsoniidae is a monophyletic family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.Bouchet, P. (2011). Borsoniidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.o ...

Description

The small shell is slender and contains 5½ sculptured

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s with weakly incised sutures. The

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is long and narrow and has a thin outer lip. The

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is short.

Species

Species within the genus ''Glyptaesopus'' include: * ''

Glyptaesopus oldroydi ''Glyptaesopus oldroydi'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.Bouchet, P. (2015). Glyptaesopus oldroydi (Arnold, 1903). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at ...

'' (Arnold, 1903) * ''

Glyptaesopus phylira ''Glyptaesopus phylira'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae. Description The size of an adult shell varies between 6 mm and 8 mm. (Original description) The small, slender shell is thin ...

'' (Dall, 1919) * ''

Glyptaesopus proctorae ''Glyptaesopus proctorae'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae. Description The shell grows to a length of 9 mm. Distribution This marine species occurs from the Florida Keys to the Bahamas ...

'' (M. Smith, 1936) * ''

Glyptaesopus xenicus ''Glyptaesopus xenicus'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae. Description The size of an adult shell grows to a length of 6 mm to 8 mm. Distribution This species occurs in the Pacific O ...

'' (Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932)

References

* Pilsbry and Olsson, 1941, Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia. Proc. vol. 93. p. 36.
Radwin (1968), ''The Systematic Position of Glyptaesopus''; The Nautilus vol. 82 (1)
* Keen, A. M. 1971. ''Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Marine mollusks from Baja California to Peru'', ed. 2. Stanford University Press. xv, 1064 pp., 22 pls.

External links

Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273-308.
* {{Taxonbar, from=Q7983274 Gastropod genera