Lusitanops

Lusitanops is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae.[2]

Lusitanops
Shell and protoconch of Lusitanops lusitanicus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Lusitanops
Nordsieck, 1968[1]
Type species
Pleurotomella lusitanica
Sykes, 1906
Species

See text

Description

This genus is characterized by a reticulated sculpture, a large, inflated body whorl, a short siphonal canal and the lack of a sinus.[3]

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:

Species brought into synonymy
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References
  1. (in German) Nordsieck (1968). "Die Europaischen Meeres-Gehauseschnecken (Prosobranchia) vom Eisraeer bis Kapverden und Mittelmeer". Gustav Fischer, Stuttgart: 181.
  2. Lusitanops Nordsieck, 1968. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  3. 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.
  4. Lusitanops blanchardi (Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1896). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  5. Lusitanops bullioides (Sykes, 1906). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  6. Lusitanops cingulatus Bouchet & Warén, 1980. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  7. Lusitanops expansus (Sars G.O., 1878). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  8. 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.
  9. Lusitanops hyaloides (Dautzenberg, 1925). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  10. Lusitanops lusitanicus (Sykes, 1906). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  11. "Lusitanops lusitanicus (Sykes 1906 : Pleurotomella)". CLEMAM, accessed 3 October 2010.
  12. Lusitanops macrapex Bouchet & Warén, 1980. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  13. Lusitanops sigmoideus Bouchet & Warén, 1980. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  14. 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
  15. Lusitanops cingulata . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  16. Lusitanops expansa (Sars G. O., 1878). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  17. Lusitanops sigmoidea . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
  • Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Raphitomidae


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