''Pseudexomilus'' 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 ''Pseudexomilus'' include:
* ''
Pseudexomilus bicarinatus''
Shuto, 1983
* † ''
Pseudexomilus caelatus''
Powell, 1944
* ''
Pseudexomilus costicapitata''
(Verco, 1909)
* ''
Pseudexomilus fenestratus''
Kilburn, 1988
* ''
Pseudexomilus fuscoapicatus''
Morassi, 1997
References
* Powell, A.W.B. 1944. The Australian Tertiary mollusca of the family Turridae. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 3(1): 1-68
* Shuto, T. 1983. ''New turrid taxa from the Australian waters''. Memoirs of the Faculty of Sciences of Kyushu University, Series D, Geology 25: 1-26
* Taylor, J.D., Kantor, Y.I. & Sysoev, A.V. 1993. ''Foregut anatomy, feeding mechanisms, relationships and classification of the Conoidea (=Toxoglossa) (Gastropoda)''. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology 59: 125-170
External links
Tucker, J.K. 2004 ''Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)''. Zootaxa 682:1-1295
Horaiclavidae
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