| Macteola | |
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| Shells of Macteola interrupta (museum specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Mangeliidae |
| Genus: | Macteola Hedley, 1918 |
| Type species | |
| Purpura (Cronia) anomalaAngas, 1877 | |
| Species | |
See text | |
Macteola is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae. [1]
This name is proposed for a genus of the Mangiliinae, in which the aperture has not acquired armature, and in which the lip is not flexed. Prominent radial ribs are over-ridden by fine beaded spiral threads. The apex is mucronate (i.e. with a small pointed projection, or spine-like ending), with smooth whorls. Characteristic is a colour scheme of a peripheral zone of brown or black or orange, sometimes broken into a series of dots or clashes. [2]
Species within the genus Macteola include:
Mangeliidae is a monophyletic family of small to medium-sized, predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.
Daphnella is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae.
Turridrupa is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turridae, the turrids.
Mangelia is a large genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.
Inquisitor is a genus of small predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudomelatomidae.
Eucithara is a genus of small to quite large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.
Marita is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.
Guraleus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.
Clavus is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Drilliidae.
Clivipollia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Prodotiidae.
Neoguraleus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.
Scrinium is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks belonging to the family Mitromorphidae, in the superfamily Conoidea the cone snails and their allies.
Heterocithara is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.
Pseudorhaphitoma is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.
Filodrillia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Borsoniidae, the cone snails and their allies.
Anacithara is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Horaiclavidae.
Leiocithara is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.
Eucithara gibbosa is a small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.
Macteola interrupta is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Mangeliidae.
Paraguraleus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.
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