Hemilienardia
Shell of Hemilienardia lynx (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Hemilienardia
O. Boettger, 1895
Type species
Pleurotoma malleti
Recluz, 1852
Species

See text

Synonyms[1]
  • Clathurella (Hemilienardia) O. Boettger, 1895 (original rank)
  • Lienardia (Hemilienardia) Boettger, 1895)

Hemilienardia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae, the turrids.[1]

Description

This genus is readily distinguishable from Lienardia by the apex. The multispiral protoconch consists of a cone of 3½ smooth rounded whorls. It lacks the characteristic diagonally cancellated sculpture of the other genera in this family. The succeeding adult whorls not only differ in sculpture, but are wound in so divergent a spiral and increase at so disproportionate rate as to project that protoconch in a mucronate point. In the colour of the type the contrast is even more violent, as there the brilliant snow-white apex against the deep rose-red is visible to the naked eye. Another generic feature is an opaque peripheral zone. The deep-seated columella folds, so conspicuous in Lienardia, are here less developed. The species are small, short, stumpy and usually brightly coloured. They frequent the upper zone of coral reefs.[2][3]

Species

Species within the genus Hemilienardia include:[1]

Species brought into synonymy

References

  1. ^ a b c Hemilienardia Boettger, 1895. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 3 October 2010.
  2. ^ Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213-359, pls 42-56 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  3. ^ Høisæter, Tore. "A taxonomic review of the Norwegian species of Raphitoma (Gastropoda: Conoidea: Raphitomidae)." (2016).

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