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Sediliopsis
Shell of † Sediliopsis chowanensis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Sediliopsis Petuch, 1988
Type species
Pleurotoma gracilis Conrad, 1830
Species
See text

Sediliopsis is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudomelatomidae.

This genus was long considered as extinct since the late Miocene, until Sedeliopsis riosi was discovered off Brazil, obviously a relict-pocket occurrence.

Species

Species within the genus Sediliopsis include:

• † Sediliopsis angulata (Martin, 1904)
• † Sediliopsis aphanitoma (Dall, 1892)
• † Sediliopsis calvertensis (Martin, 1904)
• † Sediliopsis chowanensis (J. Garnder, 1948)
• † Sediliopsis distans (Conrad, 1862)
• † Sediliopsis gracilis (Conrad, 1830)
• † Sediliopsis incilifera (Conrad, 1834)
• † Sediliopsis ondulum (Fargo, 1953)
• † Sediliopsis patuxentia (Martin, 1904)
• Sediliopsis riosi Tippett, 1995

References

1. ^ Sediliopsis. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 April 2010.
2. Don I. Tippett, Taxonomic notes on the western Atlantic Turridae (Gastropoda: Conoidea); the Nautilus v. 109 (1995-1996)
3. Sediliopsis riosi Tippett, 1995. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 April 2010.

External links

• Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
• P. Bouchet; Yu. I. Kantor; A. Sysoev; N. Puillandre (2011). "A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda)" (PDF). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77 (3): 273–308. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr017.
• Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Pseudomelatomidae

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