Lusitanops Explained

Lusitanops is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae.

Description

This genus is characterized by a reticulated sculpture, a large, inflated body whorl, a short siphonal canal and the lack of a sinus.^[1]

Fossils of Lusitanops gigasei were found in Pliocene strata at Kallo, Belgium; age range: 6 to 2.588 Ma.

Species

Species within the genus Lusitanops include:

• Lusitanops blanchardi (Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1896)
• Lusitanops bullioides (Sykes, 1906)
• Lusitanops cingulatus Bouchet & Warén, 1980
• Lusitanops dictyota Sysoev, 1997
• Lusitanops expansus (Sars G.O., 1878)
• † Lusitanops gigasei Marquet 1998 ^[2]
• Lusitanops hyaloides (Dautzenberg, 1925)
• Lusitanops lusitanicus (Sykes, 1906)^[3]
• Lusitanops macrapex Bouchet & Warén, 1980
• Lusitanops sigmoideus Bouchet & Warén, 1980

Species brought into synonymy:

• † Lusitanops bulbiformis Lozouet, 1999:^[4] synonym of † Pseudolusitanops bulbiformis (Lozouet, 1999) (original combination)
• Lusitanops cingulata: synonym of Lusitanops cingulatus Bouchet & Warén, 1980
• Lusitanops expansa (Sars G. O., 1878): synonym of Lusitanops expansus (Sars G. O., 1878)
• Lusitanops lusitanica [sic] : synonym of Lusitanops lusitanicus (Sykes, 1906)
• Lusitanops sigmoidea: synonym of Lusitanops sigmoideus Bouchet & Warén, 1980

References

• Nordsieck F. (1968). Die europäischen Meeres-Gehäuseschnecken (Prosobranchia). Vom Eismeer bis Kapverden und Mittelmeer. Gustav Fischer, Stuttgart VIII + 273 pp:

External links

• Tucker . J.K. . 2004 . Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda) . PDF . Zootaxa . 682 . 1–1295 .
• Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Raphitomidae
• 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
• Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online

Notes and References

1. Bouchet, Philippe, and Anders Warén. "Revision of the northeast Atlantic bathyal and abyssal Turridae (Mollusca, Gastropoda)." Journal of Molluscan Studies 46.Supplement_8 (1980): 1-119.
2. The Pliocene turrid gastropods of Belgium. Part 2: Conidae (genera Asthenotoma, Comarmondia, Cytharella, Mangelia, Lusitanops, Raphitoma and Philbertia). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique Sciences de la Terre, 68 1998: 263-267.
3. https://web.archive.org/web/20150924103639/http://www.somali.asso.fr/clemam/biotaxis.php?X=17809&header=1 "Lusitanops lusitanicus (Sykes 1906 : Pleurotomella)". CLEMAM, accessed 3 October 2010.
4. New species of gastropods (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from Oligocene and Lower Miocene of Aquitaine (southwestern France). (Part 2.) Cossmanniana, 6(1-2), Decembre 1999: 1-68. 40