''Monilispira'' 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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Pseudomelatomidae
Pseudomelatomidae is a family (biology), family of predatory sea snails, marine gastropods included in the superfamily Conoidea (previously Conacea) and part of the Neogastropoda (Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005), Bouchet & Ro ...
, the turrids and allies.
Species
Species within the genus ''Monilispira'' include:
* † ''
Monilispira archeri''
Olsson & Harbison, 1953
*''
Monilispira bandata''
(Nowell-Usticke, 1969)
* † ''
Monilispira bigemma''
(Dall, 1890)
*''
Monilispira circumcincta''
Nowell-Usticke, 1969
* ''
Monilispira lysidia''
(Duclos, 1850)
*''
Monilispira monilifera''
(Carpenter, 1857)
;Species brought into synonymy:
*''Monilispira crassiplicata''
Kuroda & Oyama, 1971: synonym of ''
Splendrillia crassiplicata''
(Kuroda & Oyama, 1971)
*''Monilispira leucocyma''
(Dall, 1884): synonym of ''
Pilsbryspira leucocyma''
(Dall, 1884)
*''Monilispira monilis''
Bartsch & Rehder, 1939: synonym of ''
Pilsbryspira monilis''
(Bartsch & Rehder, 1939)
*''Monilispira ochsneri''
Hertlein & Strong, 1949: synonym of ''
Cleospira ochsneri
''Cleospira ochsneri'' is a species of small predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.Bouchet, P. (2011). Cleospira ochsneri (Hertlein & Strong, 1949). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at ...
''
(Hertlein & Strong, 1949)
References
External links
*
Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77(3): 273-308
P.J. Fallon, Descriptions and illustrations of some new and poorly known turrids (Turridae) of the tropical northwestern Atlantic. Part 2. Genus Crassispira Swainson, 1840 subgenera Monilispira Bartsch and Rehder, 1939 and Dallspira Bartsch, 1950; The Nautilus 125, 2011
Pseudomelatomidae
Gastropod genera
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