| Curtitoma | |
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| Curtitoma trevelliana shell | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Mangeliidae |
| Genus: | Curtitoma Bartsch, 1941 |
| Type species | |
| Curtitoma hecuba Bartsch, 1941 | |
| Species | |
See text | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Curtitoma is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae. [1]
This genus was introduced by Paul Bartsch in 1941 to accommodate species with a distinct anal sinus and a protoconch sculptured with numerous fine threads, that were otherwise similar to the species in the genera Oenopota Moerch, 1852 and Propebela Iredale, 1918. The shell has an ovoid shape and is short and stubby. The whorls of the teleoconch are strongly tabulatedly shouldered and lack a keel at the angulation of the shoulder. The axial ribs show up strongly between the shoulder and the periphery, but disappear at the base of the shell. The spiral sculpture consists of incised lines on the spire and threads on the columella. The aperture is pear-shaped, decidedly channeled anteriorly and shows a feeble sinus at the shoulder. [2]
The grammatical gender is feminine, as composed with the Greek noun τομή, an incision (gender: feminine). However often treated as neuter following Philippi (1836: 165, footnote) and others view of treating Pleurotoma as neuter. . [1]
Species within the genus Curtitoma include:
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Mangeliidae is a monophyletic family of small to medium-sized, predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.
Antiplanes is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudomelatomidae,.
Gymnobela is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae.
Obesotoma is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.
Oenopota is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.
Propebela is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.
Bela is a genus of sea snails; marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.
Mohnia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Siphonaliinae of the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.
Retimohnia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Retimohniidae, the true whelks and the like.
Margarites is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Margaritidae.
Cyclostrema is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Liotiidae.
Boreotrophon is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Pagodulinae of the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
Cingula is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Rissoidae.
Oenopotinae is a subfamily of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Conidae.
Hemiaclis is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Eulimidae.
Aclis is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Eulimidae.
Granotoma is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.
