Cookia

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Cookia
Cookia sulcata (Cook's turban) Catlins.JPG
Cookia sulcata
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Turbinidae
Genus: Cookia
Lesson, 1832 [1]
Type species
Cookia novaezelandiae Lesson, 1832

Cookia is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.

Contents

Cookia is sometimes treated as a subgenus of the genus Bolma .

The genus was named after Captain James Cook.

Species

Species within the genus Cookia include:

Species brought into synonymy

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References

  1. Lesson R. P. (1832). Illustr. de Zool. (5): pl. 15.

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