''Macteola'' is a

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Mangeliidae Mangeliidae is a monophyletic family of small to medium-sized, predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea. Bouchet, P. (2011). Mangeliidae P. Fischer, 1883. In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Regis ...

.Bouchet, P. (2011). Macteola Hedley, 1918. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=432493 on 2017-08-07

Description

This name is proposed for a genus of the Mangiliinae, in which the

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has not acquired armature, and in which the

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is not flexed. Prominent radial ribs are over-ridden by fine beaded spiral threads. The

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(i.e. with a small pointed projection, or spine-like ending), with smooth

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s. Characteristic is a colour scheme of a peripheral zone of brown or black or orange, sometimes broken into a series of dots or clashes. Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213-359, pls 42-56

Species

Species within the genus ''Macteola'' include: * '' Macteola anomala'' (Angas, 1877) * '' Macteola biconica'' Stahlschmidt, Poppe & Tagaro, 2015 * '' Macteola chinoi'' Stahlschmidt, Fraussen & Kilburn, 2012 * ''

Macteola interrupta ''Macteola interrupta'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Mangeliidae.WoRMS (2009). Macteola interrupta (Reeve, 1846). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.mar ...

'' (Reeve, 1846) * '' Macteola miresculpta'' (Bozzetti, 2020) * '' Macteola theskela'' (Melvill & Standen, 1895) ;Species brought into synonymy: * ''Macteola bella'' W.H. Pease, 1860: synonym of ''Macteola interrupta'' (L.A. Reeve, 1846) * ''Macteola cinctura'' C. Hedley, 1922: synonym of ''Macteola segesta cinctura'' C. Hedley, 1922 * ''Macteola gemmulata'' G.P. Deshayes, 1863: synonym of ''Macteola interrupta'' (L.A. Reeve, 1846) * ''Macteola sandersonae'' (Bucknill, 1927): synonym of '' Neoguraleus sandersonae'' (Bucknill, 1927) * ''Macteola segesta'' (Duclos, 1850): synonym of ''

'' (Reeve, 1846)

References

External links

Hedley, 1918; A checklist of the marine fauna of New South Wales. Part 1.; Journal of the Royal Society of New South Wales, supplement to vol. 51: 79, 82

Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). ''A new operational classification of the Conoidea.'' Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77, 273-308

Tucker, J.K. 2004 ''Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)''. Zootaxa 682:1-1295.

MNHN: Macteola sp.
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