Graciliclava Explained

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

It was previously included within the subfamily Crassispirinae, family Turridae. Killburn in 1994 was of the opinion that Graciliclava was closely related to and possibly a subgenus of Anacithara ^{[2] [3]}

Species

Species within the genus Graciliclava include:

• Graciliclava costata (Hedley, 1922)

Species brought into synonymy:

• Graciliclava mackayensis Shuto, 1983: synonym of Graciliclava costata (Hedley, 1922)

External links

• Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213-359, pls 42-56
• Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.
• Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77(3): 273-308

Notes and References

1. Bouchet, P. (2015). Graciliclava. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=432467 on 2016-12-17
2. Kilburn, R.N. (1994) Turridae (s.l.) (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 7. SubfamilyCrassispirinae, section 2. Annals of the Natal Museum, 35, 177–228.
3. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Antonio_Bonfitto/publication/263226297_Two_new_Horaiclavus_Horaiclavidae_Conoidea_species_from_the_Indo-Pacific_region/links/54fd89cb0cf20700c5ebd76f.pdf Bonfitto, Antonio, and Mauro Morassi. "Two new Horaiclavus (Horaiclavidae, Conoidea) species from the Indo-Pacific region." Zootaxa 3821.1 (2014): 146-150.