Pseudexomilus Costicapitata
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''Pseudexomilus'' is a
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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 ...
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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 Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000  extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...
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Horaiclavidae Horaiclavidae is a family of predatory 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, taxonomi ...
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Species

Species within the genus ''Pseudexomilus'' include: * '' Pseudexomilus bicarinatus'' Shuto, 1983 * † '' Pseudexomilus caelatus'' Powell, 1944 * '' Pseudexomilus costicapitata'' (Verco, 1909) * '' Pseudexomilus fenestratus'' Kilburn, 1988 * '' Pseudexomilus fuscoapicatus'' Morassi, 1997


References


Further reading

* * Shuto, T. 1983. ''New turrid taxa from the Australian waters''. Memoirs of the Faculty of Sciences of Kyushu University, Series D, Geology 25: 1-26 * Taylor, J.D., Kantor, Y.I. & Sysoev, A.V. 1993. ''Foregut anatomy, feeding mechanisms, relationships and classification of the Conoidea (=Toxoglossa) (Gastropoda)''. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology 59: 125-170


External links


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