Toxiclionella

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Toxiclionella
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Toxiclionella haliplex
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Clavatulidae
Genus: Toxiclionella
Powell, 1966
Type species
Clavatula tumida
G.B. Sowerby II, 1870

Toxiclionella is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Clavatulidae. [1] [2]

The species in this genus were split off from the genus Clavatula by Powell in 1966 because of the toxoglossate dentition in the radula of the type species Clavatula tumida. [3]

Species

Species within the genus Toxiclionella include:

Species brought into synonymy

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References

  1. Toxiclionella Powell, 1966 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 15 April 2010.
  2. P. Bouchet; Yu. I. Kantor; A. Sysoev & N. Puillandre (2011). "A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda)". Journal of Molluscan Studies . 77 (3): 273–308. doi: 10.1093/mollus/eyr017 .
  3. Powell, A. W. B. 1966. The molluscan families Speightiidae and Turridae. Bull. Auckl. Inst. Mus. 5: 1-184, pis. 1-23.
  4. Toxiclionella haliplex (Bartsch, 1915) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 15 April 2010.
  5. Toxiclionella impages (Adams & Reeve, 1848) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 15 April 2010.
  6. Toxiclionella tumida (Sowerby II, 1870) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 15 April 2010.
  7. Toxiclionella elstoni (Barnard, 1962) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 15 April 2010.