Fustiaria

Fustiaria is a genus of scaphopods in the order Dentaliida and is the only genus comprising the family Fustiariidae, with 24 species.

Fustiaria
Fustiaria subeburnea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Scaphopoda
Order: Dentaliida
Family: Fustiariidae
Steiner, 1991[1]
Genus: Fustiaria
Stoliczka, 1868[2]
Species[3]
  • Fustiaria caesura (Colman, 1958)
  • Fustiaria crosnieri Nicklès, 1979
  • Fustiaria diaphana V. Scarabino & F. Scarabino, 2010
  • Fustiaria electra V. Scarabino & F. Scarabino, 2010
  • Fustiaria engischista (Barnard, 1963)
  • Fustiaria gruveli (Dautzenberg, 1910)
  • Fustiaria langfordi (Habe, 1963)
  • Fustiaria liodon (Pilsbry & Sharp, 1897)
  • Fustiaria mariae Scarabino, 2008
  • Fustiaria nipponica (Yokoyama, 1922)
  • Fustiaria polita (Linnaeus, 1767)
  • Fustiaria rubescens (Deshayes, 1826)
  • Fustiaria steineri V. Scarabino, 2008
  • Fustiaria stenoschiza (Pilsbry & Sharp, 1897)
  • Fustiaria tenuifissum (Pilsbry & Sharp, 1897) (taxon inquirendum)
  • Fustiaria vagina Scarabino, 1995

The shells of Fustiaria are characterized as smooth, slender, circular in cross section, slightly curved, thin-walled, and virtually transparent. The central tooth of its radula (chewing organ), called a "rachis", is unusual compared with that of other Dentaliids in that it is flat on its tip rather than pointed. The space around the foot (the "pedal sinus") is divided by a thin horizontal membrane called a septum.

References
  1. Steiner, Gerhard (1991), "Observations on the Anatomy of the Scaphopod Mantle and the Description of a New Family, the Fustiariidae", American Malacological Bulletin, 9 (1): 1–20
  2. Stoliczka F. (1867-1868). The Gastropoda [in] T. Oldham, Cretaceous Fauna of Southern India. Volume 2, Paleontologia Indica, being figures and descriptions of the organic remains procured during the progress of the Geological Survey of India. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India (Calcutta) pp. 497 [Citato nelle note come Paleont. Ind. (6) 2.]
  3. MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Fustiaria Stoliczka, 1868. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138023 on 2019-06-04


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