Lyria | |
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Shell of Lyria bondarevi (holotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Volutidae |
Subfamily: | Volutinae |
Tribe: | Lyriini |
Genus: | Lyria Gray, 1847 |
Type species | |
Voluta nucleus Lamarck, 1811 | |
Synonyms [1] | |
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Lyria is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Volutidae. [1]
The shell is small to medium sized, solid, stocky to elongate-fusiform. The radula is uniserial with tricuspid teeth. The protoconchs are smooth. They can be large and globose with a short calcarella or small and regularly coiled. The teleoconch shows axial ribs, exceptionally with true shoulder nodules. [1]
The solid shell is ovately fusiform. The spire is acuminate. The whorls are longitudinally ribbed. The aperture is ovate. The columella shows numerous transverse plaits. The outer lip is simple and acute. [2]
Species within the genus Lyria include:
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Vexillum is a genus of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Costellariidae.
Pusia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Costellariidae.
Scabricola is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mitridae.
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Lyria mallicki is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.
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Lyria (Plicolyria) is a subgenus of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae.
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