| Urosalpinx | |
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| Shell of Urosalpinx haneti | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Subfamily: | Ocenebrinae |
| Genus: | Urosalpinx Stimpson, 1865 |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Urosalpinx is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropods in the subfamily Ocenebrinae of the murex snail family, Muricidae. [1]
The shell is elongated oval, or short fusiform, longitudinally ribbed or undulated and spirally striated. The aperture has a short siphonal canal. The outer lip is dentate and lirate within. The operculum is somewhat like that of Purpura , semicordate, with the nucleus at the outer edge a little below the middle. Lingual dentition nearly like that of Trophon , the lateral teeth having an elongated base of attachment but the rhachidian tooth has numerous minute denticles between the principal ones, corresponding to ridges on the surface of the tooth, as in the Murices. Ova-capsules are oblong, shouldered, widest near the summit, compressed, carinated on either side peduncle short. The base of the attachment is very small. The aperture is median at the summit. [2]
Ocenebrinae is a taxonomic subfamily of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks. This subfamily is within the large family Muricidae, which are commonly known as the murex and rock snails.
Terebra is a genus of small to large-sized predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Terebrinae of the family Terebridae, the auger snails.
Crassispira is a genus of small predatory sea snails with narrow, high-spired shells, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudomelatomidae. They first appeared in the fossil record approximately 48.6 million years ago during the Eocene epoch, and still exist in the present day.
Muricopsis is a genus of small predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the rock snail family, Muricidae.
Teinostoma is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Teinostomatidae.
Spisula is a genus of medium-sized to large marine bivalve mollusks or clams in the subfamily Mactrinae of the family Mactridae, commonly known as surf clams or trough shells.
Fasciolariidae is a family of small to large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Buccinoidea. Species in Fasciolariidae are commonly known as tulip snails and spindle snails.
Ocenebra is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Ocenebrinae of the family Muricidae, the murex and rock snails.
Scaphella is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Volutidae, the volutes.
Cancellaria is a genus of medium-sized to large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.
Acteon is a genus of small sea snails, predatory marine gastropod mollusks in the family Acteonidae, the barrel bubble snails.
Drillia is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Drilliidae.
Mangelia is a large genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.
Bela is a genus of sea snails; marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.
Engina is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pisaniidae.
Solenosteira is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Pisaniidae.
Cronia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
Ergalatax is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Ergalataxinae of the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
Trophonopsis is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
Semele is a genus of molluscs of the family Semelidae described in 1817 by Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher.
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