• Source: Maoritomella

Maoritomella is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Borsoniidae.




Description


The small shell seldom exceeds 10 mm and has usually a fusiform-biconical shape. The axial riblets in the bluntly domed protoconch are absent or restricted to the terminal half-whorl. The sculpture consists of strong spiral lirae or cords with fine collabral threads crossing spiral lirae. It often contains a peripheral keel but never a conspicuous shoulder angle. The siphonal canal is not or feebly indented. There is an anal sinus on the shoulder slope. An operculum is present. The marginal teeth of the radula are rather short, straight and awl-like




Distribution


This marine genus occurs off Indonesia, South Africa, Zanzibar, New Zealand and Australia (New South Wales, Queensland and South Australia).




Species


Species within the genus Maoritomella include:

Maoritomella albula (Hutton, 1873)
Maoritomella clupeispina Kilburn, 1986
Maoritomella densecostulata Kilburn, 1986
Maoritomella eva (Thiele, 1925)
Maoritomella foliacea Laseron, 1954
Maoritomella granilirata Kilburn, 1986
Maoritomella ischna (Watson, 1881)
Maoritomella leptopleura Kilburn, 1986
Maoritomella megalacme Kilburn, 1986
† Maoritomella moderata (Marwick, 1965)
Maoritomella multiplex (Webster, 1906)
Maoritomella orientalis Dell, 1956
† Maoritomella pagodula Powell, 1942
Maoritomella pleonastica (Barnard, 1958)
† Maoritomella robusta Powell, 1942
† Maoritomella studiosorum (L. C. King, 1933)
† Maoritomella subalbula (R. Murdoch, 1900)
Maoritomella tarrhion Kilburn, 1986
† Maoritomella torquatella (Marwick, 1931)
Species brought into synonymy

Maoritomella batjanensis (Schepman, 1913): synonym of Otitoma batjanensis (Schepman, 1913)
Maoritomella thola Laseron, 1954: synonym of Tomopleura thola (Laseron, 1954)




References



Powell, 1942 [Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 2: 113]
Laseron, C. 1954. Revision of the New South Wales Turridae (Mollusca). Australian Zoological Handbook. Sydney : Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1-56, pls 1-12.




External links


Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.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)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Borsoniidae
• Maoritomella
• Maoritomella eva
• Maoritomella clupeispina
• Maoritomella leptopleura
• Maoritomella densecostulata
• Maoritomella robusta
• Maoritomella moderata
• Maoritomella tarrhion
• Maoritomella orientalis
• Maoritomella albula