Cookia Explained

Cookia is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.

Cookia is sometimes treated as a subgenus of the genus Bolma. http://www.gastropods.com/2/Shell_2452.shtml

The genus was named after Captain James Cook.

Species

Species within the genus Cookia include:

• †Cookia kawauensis Powell, 1938
• Cookia sulcata (Lightfoot, 1786)

Species brought into synonymy:

• Cookia novaezelandiae Lesson, 1832: synonym of Cookia sulcata (Lightfoot, 1786)

References

• Alf A. & Kreipl K. (2011) The family Turbinidae. Subfamilies Turbininae Rafinesque, 1815 and Prisogasterinae Hickman & McLean, 1990. In: G.T. Poppe & K. Groh (eds), A Conchological Iconography. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. pp. 1–82, pls 104-245

Further reading

• Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979
• Glen Pownall, New Zealand Shells and Shellfish, Seven Seas Publishing Pty Ltd, Wellington, New Zealand 1979