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Genus of gastropods

Tomellana
Shell of Tomellana semimarginata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Clavatulidae
Genus: Tomellana
(Wenz, 1943)
Type species
Clavatula lineata
(Lamarck, 1816)
Synonyms

Tomella Swainson, 1840

Tomellana is a genus of sea snail marine gastropod mollusks in the family Clavatulidae.

Tomellana is a replacement name for Tomella Swainson, 1840, a junior homonym of Tomella Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 (order Diptera)

Description

The smooth and shining shell has a fusiform shape. The spire consists of 10 - 11 whorls and is not much longer than the body whorl. The first 1½ whorls are smooth and translucent. The width of the whorls increase slowly into becoming a bulging body whorl. The whorls are separated by a simple suture. The aperture is oval. The inner lip shows a thick callosity at the top. The siphonal canal is short and wide.

Species

Species brought into synonymy

References

  1. "Tomellana Wenz, 1943". World Register of Marine Species. August 4, 2011. Retrieved August 25, 2011.
  2. Bouchet, P. (2015). Tomellana. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=578159 on 2016-04-13
  3. Hermann Strebel, Bemerkungen zu den Clavatula-Gruppen Perrona und Tomella; Hamburg :Kommissionsverlag von L. Gräfe & Sillem,1912.
  • Wenz, W. (1938-1944). Gastropoda. Teil 1: Allgemeiner Teil und Prosobranchia. xii + 1639 pp. In: Schindewolf, O.H. (Ed.) Handbuch der Paläozoologie, Band 6. Bornträger, Berlin. Lief. 1, 1-240

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Taxon identifiers
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