Sediliopsis Explained

Sediliopsis is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudomelatomidae.

This genus was long considered as extinct since the late Miocene, until Sedeliopsis riosi was discovered off Brazil, obviously a relict-pocket occurrence.^[1]

Species

Species within the genus Sediliopsis include:

• † Sediliopsis angulata (Martin, 1904)
• † Sediliopsis aphanitoma (Dall, 1892)
• † Sediliopsis calvertensis (Martin, 1904)
• † Sediliopsis chowanensis (J. Garnder, 1948)
• † Sediliopsis distans (Conrad, 1862)
• † Sediliopsis gracilis (Conrad, 1830)
• † Sediliopsis incilifera (Conrad, 1834)
• † Sediliopsis ondulum (Fargo, 1953)
• † Sediliopsis patuxentia (Martin, 1904)
• Sediliopsis riosi Tippett, 1995

External links

• Tucker . J.K. . 2004 . Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda) . Zootaxa . 682 . 1–1295 . 10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1 .
• P. Bouchet . Yu. I. Kantor . A. Sysoev . N. Puillandre . 2011 . A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda) . . 77 . 3 . 273–308 . 10.1093/mollus/eyr017. free .
• Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Pseudomelatomidae

Notes and References

1. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8274287#page/151/mode/1up Don I. Tippett, Taxonomic notes on the western Atlantic Turridae (Gastropoda: Conoidea); the Nautilus v. 109 (1995-1996)