Aforia

Aforia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cochlespiridae.[1][2]

Aforia
Apertural view of a shell of Aforia circinata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Cochlespiridae
Genus: Aforia
Dall, 1889
Type species
Pleurotoma circinata
Dall, 1873
Synonyms[1]
  • Aforia (Abyssaforia) Sysoev & Kantor, 1987
  • Aforia (Aforia) Dall, 1889
  • Aforia (Dallaforia) Sysoev & Kantor, 1987
  • Danilacarina Bozzetti, 1997
  • Irenosyrinx Dall, 1908
  • Mangilia (Aforia) Dall, 1889 (original rank)
  • Steiraxis Dall, 1896

Description

The shell resembles Irenosyrinx, but with stronger sculpture and with a paucispiral operculum, bearing such a relation to the normal species of Turris as Mohnia bears to Chrysodomus. [3]

Species

Species within the genus Aforia include:

Extinct species from the Oligocene in Northern America
  • † Aforia addicotti Javidpour, 1973
  • † Aforia campbelli Durham 1944
  • † Aforia dallamensis (Weaver, 1916)
  • † Aforia ecuadoriana Olsson 1964 (Pliocene of Ecuador)
  • † Aforia tricarinata Addicott, 1966
  • † Aforia wardi (Tegland, 1933)
Species brought into synonymy
  • Aforia chosenensis Bartsch, 1945: synonym of Aforia insignis (Jeffreys, 1883)
  • Aforia diomedea Bartsch, 1945: synonym of Aforia circinata (Dall, 1873)
  • Aforia gonoides (Watson, 1881 : synonym of Aforia goniodes (Watson, 1881)
  • Aforia hondoana (Dall, 1925):[19] synonym of Aforia circinata (Dall, 1873)
  • Aforia insignis (Jeffreys, 1883): synonym of Aforia circinata (Dall, 1873)
  • Aforia japonica Bartsch, 1945: synonym of Aforia circinata (Dall, 1873)
  • Aforia lepta (Watson, 1881):[20] synonym of Aforia watsoni Kantor, Harasewych & Puillandre, 2016
  • Aforia okhotskensis Bartsch, 1945:[21] synonym of Aforia circinata (Dall, 1873)
  • Aforia sakhalinensis Bartsch, 1945:[22] synonym of Aforia circinata (Dall, 1873)
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References
  1. Aforia Dall, 1889. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 29 August 2011.
  2. P. Bouchet; Yu. I. Kantor; A. Sysoev; N. Puillandre (2011). "A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda)". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77 (3): 273–308. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr017.
  3. W.H. Dall (1908) Reports on the Mollusca and Brachiopoda, Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. vol. 43 (described as Steiraxis)
  4. Aforia abyssalis Sysoev & Kantor, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
  5. Aforia circinata (Dall, 1873). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
  6. Aforia crebristriata (Dall, 1908). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
  7. Aforia goniodes (Watson, 1881). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
  8. Aforia goodei (Dall, 1890). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
  9. Aforia indomaris Sysoev & Kantor, 1988. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
  10. Aforia inoperculata Sysoev & Kantor, 1988. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
  11. Aforia kincaidi (Dall, 1919). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
  12. Aforia kupriyanovi Sysoev & Kantor, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
  13. Aforia magnifica (Strebel, 1908). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
  14. Aforia moskalevi Sysoev & Kantor, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
  15. Aforia multispiralis Dell, 1990. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
  16. Aforia staminea (Watson, 1881). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
  17. Aforia tasmanica Sysoev & Kantor, 1988. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
  18. Aforia trilix (Watson, 1881). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
  19. Aforia hondoana (Dall, 1925). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
  20. Aforia lepta (Watson, 1881). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
  21. Aforia okhotskensis Bartsch, 1945. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
  22. Aforia sakhalinensis Bartsch, 1945. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
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