Genota Explained

Genota is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Borsoniidae.^[1]

Description

The shell is narrowly obconic and cancellated. The body whorl gradually tapers to a but slightly developed siphonal canal. The sinus of the lip is wide and shallow. The aperture is long and narrow with subparallel margins. The operculum is unguiculate.^[2]

Species

Species within the genus Genota include:

• † Genota bonnanii Bellardi, 1877
• † Genota craverii Bellardi, 1877
• † Genota domenechae Vera-Peláez & Lozano-Francisco, 2001
• † Genota gonzalesi Shuto, 1969
• Genota joleaudi Stchepinsky, 1936 ^[3]
• † Genota jogjacartensis K. Martin, 1914
• † Genota maximei Ceulemans, Van Dingenen & Landau, 2018
• † Genota mayeri Bellardi, 1877
• Genota mitriformis (Wood W., 1828)
• Genota nicklesi Knudsen, 1952^[4]
• Genota papalis (Reeve, 1843)
• † Genota proavia Bellardi, 1877
• † Genota pseudoelisae Landau, Harzhauser, İslamoğlu & C. M. Silva, 2013
• † Genota ramosa (Basterot, 1825)
• † Genota valeriae (Hoernes & Auinger, 1891)

Species brought into synonymy:

• † Genota lusitaniae Vera-Peláez & Lozano-Francisco, 2001: synonym of † Genota bonnanii Bellardi, 1877 (junior subjective synonym)
• Genota marchadi [sic] : synonym of Genota nicklesi Knudsen, 1952
• Genota marchandi Pin, 1996 : synonym of Genota nicklesi Knudsen, 1952
• Genota mitraeformis (Kiener, 1839) : synonym of Genota mitriformis (Wood W., 1828)
• Genota nigeriensis Vera-Peláez, 2004 : synonym of Genota nicklesi Knudsen, 1952
• Genota vafra Sykes, 1905 : synonym of Genota mitriformis (Wood W., 1828)

References

• Fontannes (F.), 1880 - Les Invertébrés du bassin tertiaire du Sud-Est de la France. Les Mollusques pliocènes de la vallée du Rhone et du Roussillon. Tome 1er: Gastéropodes des formations marines et saumatres. livraison 3, p. 169-258
• Ryall P., Horro J. & Rolán E. 2013. A revision of the genus Genota H. & A. Adams, 1853 (Gastropoda: Conoidea: Borsonidae) from West Africa. Iberus, 31(2): 1-17.

External links

• Gray, J. E. (1847). A list of the genera of recent Mollusca, their synonyma and types. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1847) 15: 129-219
• Adams H. & Adams A. (1853-1858). The genera of recent Mollusca; arranged according to their organization. London, van Voorst.
• Cossmann, M. (1896). Essais de paléoconchologie comparée. Deuxième livraison. Paris, The author and Comptoir Géologique. 179 pp., 8 pls.
• Tucker . J.K. . 2004 . Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda) . Zootaxa . 682 . 1–1295 . 10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1 .
• Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77, 273-308

Notes and References

1. Bouchet, P. (2015). Genota H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=225379 on 2016-03-09
2. https://archive.org/details/manualconch06tryorich G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences
3. https://science.mnhn.fr/institution/mnhn/collection/f/item/a25164?listIndex=4&listCount=7 MNHN, Paris: Genota joleaudi
4. Knudsen . J. . Marine prosobranchs of tropical West Africa collected by the Atlantide Expedition, 1945–46. . ' Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening i Kjobenhavn . 1952 . 114 . 129–185, 1 fig. 12pl.