Aforia

Aforia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cochlespiridae.[1][2]

Aforia
Apertural view of a shell of Aforia circinata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Cochlespiridae
Genus:	Aforia Dall, 1889
Type species
Pleurotoma circinata Dall, 1873
Synonyms[1]
Aforia (Abyssaforia) Sysoev & Kantor, 1987 Aforia (Aforia) Dall, 1889 Aforia (Dallaforia) Sysoev & Kantor, 1987 Danilacarina Bozzetti, 1997 Irenosyrinx Dall, 1908 Mangilia (Aforia) Dall, 1889 (original rank) Steiraxis Dall, 1896

Description

The shell resembles Irenosyrinx, but with stronger sculpture and with a paucispiral operculum, bearing such a relation to the normal species of Turris as Mohnia bears to Chrysodomus. [3]

Species

Species within the genus Aforia include:

• Aforia abyssalis Sysoev & Kantor, 1987[4]
• Aforia aulaca (Dall, 1896)
• Aforia circinata (Dall, 1873)[5]
• Aforia crebristriata (Dall, 1908)[6]
• Aforia goniodes (Watson, 1881)[7]
• Aforia goodei (Dall, 1890)[8]
• Aforia hedleyi (Dell, 1990)
• Aforia hypomela (Dall, 1889)
• Aforia indomaris Sysoev & Kantor, 1988[9]
• Aforia inoperculata Sysoev & Kantor, 1988[10]
• Aforia kincaidi (Dall, 1919)[11]
• Aforia kupriyanovi Sysoev & Kantor, 1987[12]
• Aforia magnifica (Strebel, 1908)[13]
• Aforia moskalevi Sysoev & Kantor, 1987[14]
• Aforia multispiralis Dell, 1990[15]
• Aforia obesa Pastorino & Sánchez, 2016
• Aforia persimilis (Dall, 1890)
• Aforia serranoi Gofas, Kantor & Luque, 2014
• Aforia staminea (Watson, 1881)[16]
• Aforia tasmanica Sysoev & Kantor, 1988[17]
• Aforia trilix (Watson, 1881)[18]
• Aforia watsoni Kantor, Harasewych & Puillandre, 2016 (interim unpublished)

Extinct species from the Oligocene in Northern America

• † Aforia addicotti Javidpour, 1973
• † Aforia campbelli Durham 1944
• † Aforia dallamensis (Weaver, 1916)
• † Aforia ecuadoriana Olsson 1964 (Pliocene of Ecuador)
• † Aforia tricarinata Addicott, 1966
• † Aforia wardi (Tegland, 1933)

Species brought into synonymy

• Aforia chosenensis Bartsch, 1945: synonym of Aforia insignis (Jeffreys, 1883)
• Aforia diomedea Bartsch, 1945: synonym of Aforia circinata (Dall, 1873)
• Aforia gonoides (Watson, 1881 : synonym of Aforia goniodes (Watson, 1881)
• Aforia hondoana (Dall, 1925):[19] synonym of Aforia circinata (Dall, 1873)
• Aforia insignis (Jeffreys, 1883): synonym of Aforia circinata (Dall, 1873)
• Aforia japonica Bartsch, 1945: synonym of Aforia circinata (Dall, 1873)
• Aforia lepta (Watson, 1881):[20] synonym of Aforia watsoni Kantor, Harasewych & Puillandre, 2016
• Aforia okhotskensis Bartsch, 1945:[21] synonym of Aforia circinata (Dall, 1873)
• Aforia sakhalinensis Bartsch, 1945:[22] synonym of Aforia circinata (Dall, 1873)

References

1. Aforia Dall, 1889. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 29 August 2011.
2. P. Bouchet; Yu. I. Kantor; A. Sysoev; N. Puillandre (2011). "A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda)". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77 (3): 273–308. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr017.
3. W.H. Dall (1908) Reports on the Mollusca and Brachiopoda, Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. vol. 43 (described as Steiraxis)
4. Aforia abyssalis Sysoev & Kantor, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
5. Aforia circinata (Dall, 1873). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
6. Aforia crebristriata (Dall, 1908). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
7. Aforia goniodes (Watson, 1881). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
8. Aforia goodei (Dall, 1890). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
9. Aforia indomaris Sysoev & Kantor, 1988. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
10. Aforia inoperculata Sysoev & Kantor, 1988. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
11. Aforia kincaidi (Dall, 1919). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
12. Aforia kupriyanovi Sysoev & Kantor, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
13. Aforia magnifica (Strebel, 1908). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
14. Aforia moskalevi Sysoev & Kantor, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
15. Aforia multispiralis Dell, 1990. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
16. Aforia staminea (Watson, 1881). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
17. Aforia tasmanica Sysoev & Kantor, 1988. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
18. Aforia trilix (Watson, 1881). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
19. Aforia hondoana (Dall, 1925). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
20. Aforia lepta (Watson, 1881). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
21. Aforia okhotskensis Bartsch, 1945. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
22. Aforia sakhalinensis Bartsch, 1945. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.

• Bozzetti L. (1997) Description of a new genus and a new species (Gastropoda: Turridae, Turriculinae) from the Kerguelen Islands, southern Indian Ocean / Descrizione di un nuovo genere ed una nuova specie (Gastropoda: Turridae, Turriculinae) dalle Isole Kerguelen, Oceano Indiano meridionale. World Shells 23: 42-44
• Wiese V. (2001) Comments on a "new" turrid species from Kerguelen. Schriften zur Malakozoologie 18: 33-34
• GOFAS, Serge, Yuri KANTOR, and Ángel A. LUQUE. "A new Aforia (Gastropoda: Conoidea: Cochlespiridae) from Galicia Bank (NW Iberian Peninsula)." (2014): 45-51.
• Sysoev & Kantor, Deep-sea gastropods of the genus Aforia (Turridae) of the Pacific: Species composition, Systematics, and functional morphology of the digerstive system; The Veliger, California Malacozoological Society Northern California Malacozoological Club v.30 (1987-1988)