Fenimorea

Fenimorea is a genus of carnivorous sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Drilliidae.[1][2]

Fenimorea
Abapertural view of a shell of Fenimorea janetae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Fenimorea
Bartsch, 1934
Type species
Fenimorea janetae
Bartsch, 1934
Species

See text

Description

(Original description) The shell is large. The whorls of the protoconch are well rounded and smooth. The whorls of the spire show strong, broad axial ribs that are retractively bent and reduced in the depressed groove below the summit and extend anteriorly to the fasciole on the base. The finer sculpture on the ribs and intercostal spaces consists of decidedly wavy incised spiral lines and fine incremental lines, which vary in strength. The combination of these two elements gives to the surface a peculiar effect, resembling the scales on some butterfly wings. This sculpture extends to the basal fasciole. The fasciole itself and the area immediately posterior to it, as well as the rest of the columella, are marked by spiral threads. The aperture is moderately long and broad and strongly channeled anteriorly. The basal sinus is deep and reflected at the edge with a strong parietal callus. The stromboid notch is shallow.[3]

Species

Species within the genus Fenimorea include:

Species brought into synonymy
Nomen dubium

References
  1. Fenimorea . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 October 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. Bartsch, P. (1934) Reports on the collections obtained by the first Johnson-Smithsonian deep-sea expedition to the Puerto Rican deep; new mollusks of the family Turritidae. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 91, 1–29, 8 pls
  4. Fenimorea culexensis Nowell-Usticke, 1969. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 April 2010.
  5. Fenimorea fucata (Reeve, 1845). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 April 2010.
  6. Fenimorea janetae Bartsch, 1934. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 April 2010.
  7. Fenimorea kathyae Tippett, 1995. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 April 2010.
  8. Fenimorea pagodula (Dall, 1889). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 April 2010.
  9. Fenimorea petiti Tippett, 1995. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 April 2010.
  10. Fenimorea sunderlandi (Petuch, 1987). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 April 2010.
  11. Fenimorea halidorema Schwengel, 1940. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 April 2010.
  12. Fenimorea ustickei (Nowell-Usticke, 1959). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 April 2010.
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