''Granotoma'' is a

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Mangeliidae Mangeliidae is a monophyletic family of small to medium-sized, predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea. Bouchet, P. (2011). Mangeliidae P. Fischer, 1883. In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Regis ...

.Bouchet, P. (2011). Granotoma Bartsch, 1941. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=432468 on 2017-06-28

Species

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

Granotoma albrechti ''Granotoma albrechti'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.Bouchet, P. (2015). Granotoma albrechti (Krause, 1885). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http ...

'' (Krause, 1885) * ''

Granotoma dissoluta ''Granotoma dissoluta'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae. Distribution This species occurs in the Sea of Japan The Sea of Japan is the marginal sea between the Japanese archipelago, Sakhal ...

'' (Yokoyama, 1926) * ''

Granotoma kobelti ''Granotoma kobelti'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.Bouchet, P. (2017). Granotoma kobelti (Verkrüzen, 1876). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http ...

'' (Verkrüzen, 1876) * ''

Granotoma krausei ''Granotoma krausei'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.WoRMS (2009). Granotoma krausei (Dall, 1887). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marin ...

'' (Dall, 1887) * ''

Granotoma tumida ''Granotoma tumida'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.Bouchet, P. (2017). Granotoma tumida. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies. ...

'' (Posselt, 1898) ;Species brought into synonymy: * ''Granotoma raduga'' (Bogdanov, I.P., 1985): synonym of ''

Oenopota raduga ''Oenopota raduga'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae. Description The length of the shell attains 6.5 mm. Distribution This species occurs in the Sea of Japan and off Kamchatka References ...

'' Bogdanov, 1985

References

Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Mangeliidae

External links

P Bartsch. "The Nomenclatorial Status of Certain Northern Turritid Mollusks"; Proceedings of the biological Society of Washington 54, 1-14, 1941

Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). ''A new operational classification of the Conoidea''. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77, 273-308

Tucker, J.K. 2004 ''Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)''. Zootaxa 682:1-1295
Gastropod genera {{Mangeliidae-stub