Tenebrincola

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Tenebrincola
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Volutidae
Genus: Tenebrincola
Harasewych & Kantor, 1991

Tenebrincola is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Volutidae. [1] It is a Western Pacific abyssal genus, which is defined by a very thin, smooth shell, a radula of the fulgorarid type, and the presence of an operculum. [2] Its phylogenetic relationship with the Asian fulgorarids needs to be clarified.

Species

Species within the genus Tenebrincola include:

The species includes two populations: Tenebrincola cukri cukri (Rokop, 1972) - Baja California and Tenebrincola cukri frigida Harasewych & Kantor, 1991 - Aleutian Trench. [2]

References

  1. ↑ Tenebrincola Harasewych & Kantor, 1991 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 25 April 2010.
  2. 1 2 Bail, P., Chino, M. & Terryn, Y. (2010). The Family Volutidae. The endemic Far East Asian subfamily Fulgorariinae Pilsbry & Olsson, 1954. A revision of the recent species. In: Poppe, G. T. & Groh, K.: A Conchological Iconography. 74 pp., 64 plts. ConchBooks, Hackenheim, ISBN   978-3-939767-31-2.
  3. ↑ Tenebrincola cukri (Rokop, 1972) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 25 April 2010.


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