- Source: Macteola
Macteola is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.
Description
This name is proposed for a genus of the Mangiliinae, in which the aperture has not acquired armature, and in which the lip is not flexed. Prominent radial ribs are over-ridden by fine beaded spiral threads. The apex is mucronate (i.e. with a small pointed projection, or spine-like ending), with smooth whorls. Characteristic is a colour scheme of a peripheral zone of brown or black or orange, sometimes broken into a series of dots or clashes.
Species
Species within the genus Macteola include:
Macteola anomala (Angas, 1877)
Macteola biconica Stahlschmidt, Poppe & Tagaro, 2015
Macteola chinoi Stahlschmidt, Fraussen & Kilburn, 2012
Macteola interrupta (Reeve, 1846)
Macteola miresculpta (Bozzetti, 2020)
Macteola theskela (Melvill & Standen, 1895)
Species brought into synonymy
Macteola bella W.H. Pease, 1860: synonym of Macteola interrupta (L.A. Reeve, 1846)
Macteola cinctura C. Hedley, 1922: synonym of Macteola segesta cinctura C. Hedley, 1922
Macteola gemmulata G.P. Deshayes, 1863: synonym of Macteola interrupta (L.A. Reeve, 1846)
Macteola sandersonae (Bucknill, 1927): synonym of Neoguraleus sandersonae (Bucknill, 1927)
Macteola segesta (Duclos, 1850): synonym of Macteola interrupta (Reeve, 1846)
References
External links
Hedley, 1918; A checklist of the marine fauna of New South Wales. Part 1.; Journal of the Royal Society of New South Wales, supplement to vol. 51: 79, 82
Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77, 273-308
Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.
Worldwide Mollusk Data base : Mangeliidae
MNHN: Macteola sp.