| Hemilienardia | |
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| Shell of Hemilienardia lynx (holotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Raphitomidae |
| Genus: | Hemilienardia O. Boettger, 1895 |
| Type species | |
| Pleurotoma malleti Recluz, 1852 | |
| Species | |
See text | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Hemilienardia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae, the turrids. [1]
This genus is readily distinguishable from Lienardia by the apex. The multispiral protoconch consists of a cone of 3½ smooth rounded whorls. It lacks the characteristic diagonally cancellated sculpture of the other genera in this family. The succeeding adult whorls not only differ in sculpture, but are wound in so divergent a spiral and increase at so disproportionate rate as to project that protoconch in a mucronate point. In the colour of the type the contrast is even more violent, as there the brilliant snow-white apex against the deep rose-red is visible to the naked eye. Another generic feature is an opaque peripheral zone. The deep-seated columella folds, so conspicuous in Lienardia, are here less developed. The species are small, short, stumpy and usually brightly coloured. They frequent the upper zone of coral reefs. [2] [3]
Species within the genus Hemilienardia include: [1]
Hemilienardia chrysoleuca is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.
Pseudodaphnella is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae.
Lienardia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Clathurellidae.
Hemilienardia albomagna is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.
Hemilienardia fusiforma is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.
Hemilienardia elongata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.
Hemilienardia infulabrunnea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.
Hemilienardia mikesevernsi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.
Hemilienardia micronesialba is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.
Hemilienardia multidentata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.
Hemilienardia homochroa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.
Hemilienardia goubini is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.
Hemilienardia albostrigata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.
Hemilienardia calcicincta is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.
Hemilienardia minor is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.
Hemilienardia ecprepes is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.
Hemilienardia fenestrata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.
Hemilienardia notopyrrha is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.
Hemilienardia ocellata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.
Hemilienardia subspurca is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.
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