''Calagrassor'' is a
genus
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of
sea snail
Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...
s, marine
gastropod
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This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusk
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s in the
family
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Eosiphonidae
The Eosiphonidae are a taxonomic family of large sea snails, often known as whelk
Whelks are any of several carnivorous sea snail species with a swirling, tapered shell. Many are eaten by humans, such as the common whelk of the North Atla ...
, the true whelks and their allies.
[Bouchet, P. (2014). Calagrassor Kantor, Puillandre, Fraussen, Fedosov & Bouchet, 2013. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=744011 on 2014-12-04]
Species
Species within the genus ''Calagrassor'' include:
* ''
Calagrassor aldermenensis''
(Powell, 1971)
* ''
Calagrassor analogus''
Fraussen, Chino & Stahlschmidt, 2017
* ''
Calagrassor bacciballus''
Fraussen & Stahlschmidt, 2016
* ''
Calagrassor delicatus''
Fraussen & Stahlschmidt, 2016
* ''
Calagrassor hagai''
Fraussen, Chino & Stahlschmidt, 2017
* ''
Calagrassor hayashii''
(Shikama, 1971)
* ''
Calagrassor hespericus''
Fraussen & Stahlschmidt, 2016
* ''
Calagrassor pidginoides''
Fraussen & Stahlschmidt, 2016
* ''
Calagrassor poppei''
(Fraussen, 2001)
* ''
Calagrassor tashiensis''
(Lee & Lan, 2002)
* ''
Calagrassor zephyrus''
(Fraussen, Sellanes & Stahlschmidt, 2012)
References
* Fraussen, K.; Stahlschmidt, P. (2016). The extensive Indo-Pacific deep-water radiation of Manaria E.A. Smith, 1906 (Gastropoda: Buccinidae) and related genera, with descriptions of 21 new species. in: Héros, V. et al. (Ed.) Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 29. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (1993). 208: 363-456.
External links
Kantor Yu.I., Puillandre N., Fraussen K., Fedosov A.E. & Bouchet P. (2013) ''Deep-water Buccinidae (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda) from sunken wood, vents and seeps: Molecular phylogeny and taxonomy.'' Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 93(8): 2177-2195
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Eosiphonidae
Gastropod genera