''Iwaoa'' is a
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 Horaiclavidae
Horaiclavidae is a family of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.
In 2011 this family was split off from the family Pseudomelatomidae (formerly the subfamily Crassispirinae McLean, 1971) by Bouchet P., Ka ...
.
Species
Species within the genus ''Iwaoa'' include:
* ''
Iwaoa invenusta''
Kantor, Fedosov & Puillandre, 2018
* ''
Iwaoa reticulata''
Kuroda, 1953
References
* Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (2010). Nomenclator of Molluscan Supraspecific Names.
* Kantor Y., Fedosov S. & Puillandre N. , 2018. New and unusual deep-water Conoidea revised with shell, radula and DNA characters. Ruthenica 28(2): 47-82
External links
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.
Horaiclavidae
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