''Anentome'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...
of
freshwater snail
Freshwater snails are gastropod mollusks which live in fresh water. There are many different families. They are found throughout the world in various habitats, ranging from ephemeral pools to the largest lakes, and from small seeps and springs ...
s with
opercula,
aquatic gastropod mollusk
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is es ...
s in the subfamily Anentominae of the family
Nassariidae
The Nassariidae, Nassa mud snails (USA), or dog whelks (UK), are a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Neogastropoda.
"Dog whelk" also refers to '' Nucella lapillus''.
Shell descripti ...
, a family, almost all of the rest of which are
marine.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Anentome Cossmann, 1901. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=724651 on 2020-05-21]
Species
Species within the genus ''Anentome'' include:
* ''
Anentome bizonata''
(Deshayes, 1876)
* ''
Anentome cambojiensis''
(Reeve, 1861)
* ''
Anentome costulata''
(Schepman, 1885)
* ''
Anentome fusca''
(H. Adams, 1862)
* ''
Anentome helena''
(von dem Busch, 1847)
* ''
Anentome jullieni''
(Deshayes, 1876)
* ''
Anentome paviei''
(Morlet, 1866)
* ''
Anentome scalarina''
(Deshayes, 1876)
* ''
Anentome spinosa''
(Temcharoen, 1971)
* ''
Anentome wykoffi''
(Brandt, 1974)
References
External links
Adams, H. (1862 ["1861"]). Descriptions of some new genera and species of shells from the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1861(3): 383-385Strong E.E., Galindo L.A. & Kantor Yu.I. (2017). Quid est Clea helena? Evidence for a previously unrecognized radiation of assassin snails (Gastropoda: Buccinoidea: Nassariidae). PeerJ. 5: e3638Galindo, L. A.; Puillandre, N.; Utge, J.; Lozouet, P.; Bouchet, P. (2016). The phylogeny and systematics of the Nassariidae revisited (Gastropoda, Buccinoidea). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 99: 337-353
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Nassariidae
Gastropod genera