Strobiligera Explained

Strobiligera is a genus of minute sea snails with left-handed shell-coiling, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Triphoridae.^[1]

Description

(Original description) The Protoconch larger than the succeeding whorl, swollen, smooth. The sutural sulcus is feeble. The siphonal canal is short and open.

There are numerous species in the deep water of the Antilles.^[2]

Species

• Strobiligera bigemma (R. B. Watson, 1880)
• Strobiligera brychia (Bouchet & Guillemot, 1978)
• Strobiligera campista M. Fernandes & Pimenta, 2019
• Strobiligera compsa (Dall, 1927)
• Strobiligera delicata M. Fernandes & Pimenta, 2014
• Strobiligera dinea (Dall, 1927)
• Strobiligera enopla (Dall, 1927)
• Strobiligera filata (Dall, 1889)
• Strobiligera flammulata Bouchet & Warén, 1993
• Strobiligera gaesona (Dall, 1927)
• Strobiligera georgiana (Dall, 1927)
• Strobiligera ibex (Dall, 1881)
• Strobiligera inaudita (Rolán & H. G. Lee, 2008)
• Strobiligera indigena'' (Dall, 1927)
• Strobiligera lubrica Bouchet & Warén, 1993
• Strobiligera meteora (Dall, 1927)
• Strobiligera pompona (Dall, 1927)
• Strobiligera santista M. Fernandes & Pimenta, 2019
• Strobiligera sentoma (Dall, 1927)
• Strobiligera torticula (Dall, 1881)
• Strobiligera unicornium (Simone, 2006)

Synonyms:

• Strobiligera inflata (R. B. Watson, 1880): synonym of Strobiligera filata (Dall, 1889)

External links

• Dall, William Healey. 1927. "Small shells from dredgings off the southeast coast of the United States by the United States Fisheries steamer Albatross in 1885 and 1886." Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 70 (2667):1–134
• Bouchet P. (1985). Les Triphoridae de Méditerranée et du proche Atlantique (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Lavori, Società Italiana di Malacologia. 21: 5-58.
• Bouchet P. & Warén A. (1993). Revision of the Northeast Atlantic bathyal and abyssal Mesogastropoda. Bollettino Malacologico supplemento 3: 579-840
• Fernandes M.R. & Pimenta A.D. (2014). Two species of the genus Strobiligera (Caenogastropoda: Triphoridae) with a multispiral protoconch in southeastern Brazil. American Malacological Bulletin. 32(2):165-172

Notes and References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Strobiligera Dall, 1924. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138578 on 2022-07-04
2. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34552611 Dall, W. H. (1924). Notes on molluscan nomenclature. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 37: 87-90