Echinophoria

Echinophoria is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cassidae, the helmet snails and bonnet snails.[1]

Echinophoria
Shell of Echinophoria coronadoi (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Tonnoidea
Family: Cassidae
Genus: Echinophoria
Sacco, 1890
Type species
† Buccinum intermedium Brocchi, 1814
Synonyms[1]
  • Bathygalea Woodring & Olsson, 1957
  • Bathygalea (Bathygalea) Woodring & Olsson, 1957
  • Cassis (Echinophoria) Sacco, 1890
  • Euspinacassis Finlay, 1926
  • Phalium (Echinophoria) Sacco, 1890
  • † Trachydolium Howe, 1926

Species

Species within the genus Echinophoria include:

  • Echinophoria bituberculosa (Martens, 1901)
  • Echinophoria carnosa Kuroda & Habe in Habe, 1961
  • Echinophoria coronadoi (Crosse, 1867) [2]
  • † Echinophoria emilyae (Laws, 1932) †
  • † Echinophoria grangei (Marwick, 1926)
  • Echinophoria hadra (Woodring & Olsson, 1957)
  • † Echinophoria intermedia (Brocchi, 1814)
  • Echinophoria kurodai (Abbott, 1968)
  • Echinophoria mozambicana Bozzetti, Rosado & T. Cossignani, 2010
  • † Echinophoria oconnori (Dell, 1952)
  • † Echinophoria oneroaensis (Powell, 1938)
  • Echinophoria pilsbryi (Woodring & Olsson, 1957)
  • † Echinophoria pollens (Finlay, 1926)
  • † Echinophoria toreuma (Powell, 1928)
  • † Echinophoria trituberculata (Weaver, 1912)
  • Echinophoria wyvillei Watson, 1886)

Species brought into synonymy:

  • Echinophoria oschei Mühlhäusser, 1992: synonym of Echinophoria wyvillei (Watson, 1886)

References
  1. Bouchet, P. (2010). Echinophoria Sacco, 1890. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=415332 on 2012-06-27
  2. Echinophoria coronadoi(Crosse, 1867). WoRMS (2010). Echinophoria coronadoi (Crosse, 1867). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species athttp://www.marinespecies.eu/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=419779 on 14 August 2010 .
  • Beu A.G. (2008) Recent deep-water Cassidae of the world. A revision of Galeodea, Oocorys, Sconsia, Echinophoria and related taxa, with new genera and species (Mollusca, Gastropoda). In Héros V., Cowie R.H. & Bouchet P. (eds), Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 25. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 196: 269-387. page(s): 363
  • Verbinnen G., Segers L., Swinnen F., Kreipl K. & Monsecour D. (2016). Cassidae. An amazing family of seashells. Harxheim: ConchBooks. 251 pp
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