Cookia | |
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Cookia sulcata | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
Order: | Trochida |
Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
Family: | Turbinidae |
Genus: | Cookia Lesson, 1832[1] |
Type species | |
Cookia novaezelandiae Lesson, 1832 |
Cookia is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.
Cookia is sometimes treated as a subgenus of the genus Bolma. [1]
The genus was named after Captain James Cook.
Species within the genus Cookia include: