Glyptaesopus

Glyptaesopus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Borsoniidae.

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.

Species

Species within the genus Glyptaesopus include:

• Glyptaesopus oldroydi <small>(Arnold, 1903)</small>
• Glyptaesopus phylira <small>(Dall, 1919)</small>
• Glyptaesopus proctorae <small>(M. Smith, 1936)</small>
• Glyptaesopus xenicus <small>(Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932)</small>

References

• Pilsbry and Olsson, 1941, Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia. Proc. vol. 93. p.&nbsp;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.