Maoritomella

Maoritomella
Three views of a shell of Maoritomella batjanensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Borsoniidae
Genus: Maoritomella
Powell, 1942
Type species
Pleurotoma albula
Hutton, 1873
Synonyms[1]

Narraweena Laseron, 1954

Maoritomella is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Borsoniidae.[1]

Description

The small shell seldom exceeds 10 mm and has usually a fusiform-biconical shape. The axial riblets in the bluntly domed protoconch are absent or restricted to the terminal half-whorl. The sculpture consists of strong spiral lirae or cords with fine collabral threads crossing spiral lirae. It often contains a peripheral keel but never a conspicuous shoulder angle.The siphonal canal is not or feebly indented. There is an anal sinus on the shoulder slope. An operculum is present.The marginal teeth of the radula are rather short, straight and awl-like[2]

Distribution

This marine genus occurs off Indonesia, South Africa, Zanzibar, New Zealand and Australia (New South Wales, Queensland and South Australia).

Species

Species within the genus Maoritomella include:

Species brought into synonymy

References

  1. 1 2 Rosenberg, G.; Bouchet, P. (2012). Maoritomella. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=432499 on 2012-06-28
  2. R.N. Kilburn, Turridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 3. Subfamily Borsoniinae; Annals of the Natal Museum, 1986
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