Cordieria

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

Cordieria
Temporal range: Cretaceous to Recent
Cordieria rouaultii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Borsoniidae
Genus: Cordieria
Rouault, 1848
Type species
† Cordieria iberica Rouault, 1848

This genus is considered by the French malacologist Maurice Cossmann separate from Borsonia, not on the basis of the columellar plaits alone, but mostly because of the shorter siphonal canal and a number of other characteristics that he enumerates.

Species

Species within the genus Borsonia include:

  • † Cordieria fuscoamnica Darragh, 2017
  • Cordieria horrida Monterosato, 1884 [2]
  • † Cordieria iberica Rouault, 1848
  • Cordieria ovalis P. Marshall, 1917
  • Cordieria pupoides Monterosato, 1884 [3]
  • Cordieria rouaultii (Dall, 1889)
  • † Cordieria torquata Darragh, 2017
Species brought into synonymy
  • Cordieria cordieri var. hispida Monterosato, 1890: synonym of Raphitoma hispidella Riccardo Giannuzzi-Savelli, Francesco Pusateri, Stefano Bartolini, 2019
  • † Cordieria haasti Finlay, 1930: synonym of † Cordieria rudis (Hutton, 1885)
  • † Cordieria verrucosa Finlay, 1930: synonym of † Cordieria rudis (Hutton, 1885)

References
  1. Bouchet, P. (2015). Cordieria. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=432436 on 2016-03-03
  2. MNHN, Paris: Cordieria horrida
  3. MNHN, Paris: Cordieria pupoides
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