''Cordieria'' is a
genus
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of
sea snail
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s,
marine gastropod
Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusk
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s in the
family
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Borsoniidae
Borsoniidae is a monophyletic family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.Bouchet, P. (2011). Borsoniidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/ ...
.
[Bouchet, P. (2015). Cordieria. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=432436 on 2016-03-03]
This genus is considered by the French malacologist
Maurice Cossmann
Maurice Cossmann, full name Alexandre Édouard Maurice Cossmann (18 September 1850 – 17 May 1924) was a French paleontologist and malacologist.
Maurice Cossmann's father was an artist draughtsman and a talented lithographer. His early educati ...
separate from ''
Borsonia'', not on the basis of the columellar plaits alone, but mostly because of the shorter
siphonal canal
The siphonal canal is an anatomical feature of the shells of certain groups of sea snails within the clade Neogastropoda. Some sea marine gastropods have a soft tubular anterior extension of the mantle called a siphon through which water i ...
and a number of other characteristics that he enumerates.
Species
Species within the genus ''Borsonia'' include:
* † ''
Cordieria fuscoamnica''
Darragh, 2017
* ''
Cordieria horrida''
Monterosato, 1884
* † ''
Cordieria iberica''
Rouault, 1848
* ''
Cordieria ovalis''
P. Marshall, 1917
* ''
Cordieria pupoides''
Monterosato, 1884 MNHN, Paris: ''Cordieria pupoides''
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* '' Cordieria rouaultii'' (Dall, 1889)
* † '' Cordieria torquata'' Darragh, 2017
; Species brought into synonymy:
* ''Cordieria cordieri'' var. ''hispida'' Monterosato, 1890: synonym of '' Raphitoma hispidella'' Riccardo Giannuzzi-Savelli, Francesco Pusateri, Stefano Bartolini, 2019
* † ''Cordieria haasti'' Finlay, 1930: synonym of † '' Cordieria rudis'' (Hutton, 1885)
* † ''Cordieria verrucosa'' Finlay, 1930: synonym of † '' Cordieria rudis'' (Hutton, 1885)
References
Grant & Gale, ''Pliocene and Pleistocene Mollusca of California and adjacent regions''; Memoirs of the San Diego Society of Natural History 1 (1931) p. 543
* Monterosato, A. T., 1884 ''Nomenclatura generica e specifica di alcune Conchiglie Mediterranee'', p. 152 pp
External links
Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273-308.
Riccardo Giannuzzi-Savelli, Francesco Pusateri, Stefano Bartolini; A revision of the Mediterranean Raphitomidae, 8: on twopoorly known species of Raphitoma Bellardi, 1847: R. pumila (Monterosato, 1890) and R. hispidella nomen novum (Gastropoda Conoidea); Biodiversity Journal, 2019
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Gastropod genera