Glyptaesopus

Glyptaesopus
Glyptaesopus phylira
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Borsoniidae
Genus:	Glyptaesopus Pilsbry & Olsson, 1941
Type species
Aesopus xenicus Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932

Glyptaesopus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Borsoniidae^[1]

Description

The small shell is slender and contains 5½ sculptured whorls with weakly incised sutures. The aperture is long and narrow and has a thin outer lip. The siphonal canal is short.^[2]

Species

Species within the genus Glyptaesopus include:

• Glyptaesopus oldroydi (Arnold, 1903)
• Glyptaesopus phylira (Dall, 1919) ^[3]
• Glyptaesopus proctorae (M. Smith, 1936) ^[4]
• Glyptaesopus xenicus (Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932) ^[5]

References

1. Glyptaesopus. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 August 2011.
2. Peter Jung,Miocene and Pliocene Mollusks from Trinidad; Bulletins of American paleontology v. 55 no. 247 p. 555
3. Glyptaesopus phylira (Dall, 1919). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
4. Glyptaesopus proctorae (M. Smith, 1936). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
5. Glyptaesopus xenicus (Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.

• Pilsbry and Olsson, 1941, Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia. Proc. vol. 93. p. 36.
• Radwin (1968), The Systematic Position of Glyptaesopus; The Nautilus vol. 82 (1)
• Keen, A. M. 1971. Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Marine mollusks from Baja California to Peru, ed. 2. Stanford University Press. xv, 1064 pp., 22 pls.

External links

• Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273-308.
• Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.