Aforia | |
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Apertural view of a shell of Aforia circinata | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Cochlespiridae |
Genus: | Aforia Dall, 1889 |
Type species | |
Pleurotoma circinata Dall, 1873
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Synonyms[1] | |
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Aforia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cochlespiridae.[1][2]
The shell resembles Irenosyrinx, but with stronger sculpture and with a paucispiral operculum, bearing such a relation to the normal species of Turris as Mohnia bears to Chrysodomus.[3]
Species within the genus Aforia include: