''Gemophos'' 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
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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Pisaniidae
The Pisaniidae are a taxonomic family of medium-sized 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 classifi ...
.
Species
Species within the genus ''Gemophos'' include:
* ''
Gemophos auritulus''
(Link, 1807)
* ''
Gemophos filistriatus''
Vermeij, 2001
* ''
Gemophos gemmatus''
(Reeve, 1846)
* ''
Gemophos inca''
(d' Orbigny, 1839)
* ''
Gemophos janellii''
(Valenciennes, 1846)
* ''
Gemophos pacei''
Petuch & Sargent, 2011
* ''
Gemophos pastinaca''
(Reeve, 1846)
* ''
Gemophos ringens''
(Reeve, 1846)
*''
Gemophos sanguinolentus''
(Duclos, 1833)
* ''
Gemophos tinctus
''Gemophos tinctus'', the tinted cantharus, painted cantharus, or gaudy lesser whelk, is a species of sea snail in the family Pisaniidae.
Description
The size of the shell varies between 19 mm and 32 mm.feeds on smal algae
Distrib ...
''
(Conrad, 1846)
* ''
Gemophos viverratoides''
(d'Orbigny, 1840)
* ''
Gemophos viverratus''
(Kiener, 1834)
References
* Vermeij G.J. 2006. ''The Cantharus group of pisaniine buccinid gastropods: review of the Oligocene to Recent genera and description of some new species of Gemophos and Hesperisternia.'' Cainozoic Research 4(1): 71-96
Pisaniidae
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