''Engoniophos'' 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 sea snails, marine 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 of the

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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 ...

. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Engoniophos Woodring, 1928. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=415343 on 2020-11-02

Taxonomy

This genus was treated within family

Buccinidae The Buccinidae are a very large and diverse taxonomic family of large sea snails, often known as whelks or true whelks.Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2010). Buccinidae. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. A ...

. It was moved to family

in 2016.Galindo, L. A., Puillandre, N., Utge, J., Lozouet, P., & Bouchet, P. (2016). "The phylogeny and systematics of the Nassariidae revisited (Gastropoda, Buccinoidea)". ''

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'' 99: 337-353.

Species

Species within the genus ''Engoniophos'' include: * † ''

Engoniophos erectus ''Engoniophos'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily of the family (biology), family Nassariidae. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Engoniophos Woodring, 1928. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Speci ...

'' (Guppy, 1873) * ''

Engoniophos unicinctus ''Engoniophos unicinctus'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Nassariidae.WoRMS (2010). ''Engoniophos unicinctus'' (Say, 1826). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http: ...

'' (Say, 1826)

References

* Landau B., Silva C.M. da & Heitz A. (2016). Systematics of the gastropods of the Lower–Middle Miocene Cantaure Formation, Paraguaná Formation, Paraguaná peninsula, Venezuela. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 389-390: 1-581

External links

Galindo, 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
Nassariidae {{Nassariidae-stub