Tomellana

Tomellana is a genus of sea snail marine gastropod mollusks in the family Clavatulidae.

Tomellana is a replacement name for Tomella Swainson, 1840, a junior homonym of Tomella <small>Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830</small> (order Diptera)

Description

The smooth and shining shell has a fusiform shape. The spire consists of 10 - 11 whorls and is not much longer than the body whorl. The first 1½ whorls are smooth and translucent. The width of the whorls increase slowly into becoming a bulging body whorl. The whorls are separated by a simple suture. The aperture is oval. The inner lip shows a thick callosity at the top. The siphonal canal is short and wide.

Species

• † Tomellana aueri <small>Harzhauser, Landau & R. Janssen, 2022</small>
• † Tomellana dulaii <small>Harzhauser, Landau & R. Janssen, 2022</small>
• Tomellana hupferi <small>Strebel, 1912</small>
• † Tomellana jouannetii <small>(Des Moulins, 1842)</small>
• Tomellana leschkei <small>(Strebel, 1912)</small>
• Tomellana lineata <small>(Lamarck, 1818)</small>
• † Tomellana praecursor <small>(Schaffer, 1912)</small>
• † Tomellana semimarginata <small>(Lamarck, 1822)</small>

• Tomellana pfefferi <small>(Strebel, 1912)</small>: synonym of Fusiturris pfefferi <small>(Strebel, 1912)</small>

References

• Wenz, W. (1938-1944). Gastropoda. Teil 1: Allgemeiner Teil und Prosobranchia. xii + 1639 pp. In: Schindewolf, O.H. (Ed.) Handbuch der Paläozoologie, Band 6. Bornträger, Berlin. Lief. 1, 1-240

External links

• William Swainson. A Treatise on Malacology or Shells and Shellflsh 1840, pag.314; London, Longman. viii + 419 pp
• Nolf F. (2015). The genus Tomellana (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Clavatulidae) in West Africa: a comprehensive Survey and establishment of Fusiturris kribiensis Bozzetti, 2015 as a junior synonym. Neptunea. 13(4): 17-37
• Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77(3): 273-308
• Harzhauser, M.; Landau, B.; Janssen, R. (2022). The Clavatulidae (Gastropoda, Conoidea) of the Miocene Paratethys Sea with considerations on fossil and extant Clavatulidae genera. Zootaxa. 5123(1): 1-172