Boreoscala
Kobelt, 1902
Members of this genus are large and strongly sculptured; spire convex, whorls are attached and there is a well-developed basal ridge; surface with strong axial costae, which are thickened and not blade-like, with rather coarse spiral sculpture consisting of flattened ridges; suture defined, but not deep; aperture well-developed; umbilicus closed; operculum horny, black.
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[Type species: Turbo clathrus groenlandicus Chemnitz, 1795 (non-binomial) (=Scalaria greenlandica Perry, 1811: ODKobelt, 1902]
Literature cited:
Brown, L. & Neville, B.D. (2015). Catalog of the recent taxa of the families Epitoniidae and Nystiellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) with a bibliography of the descriptive and systematic literature. Zootaxa. 3907(1). pp: 001-188
Clench, W. J. & Turner, R. D. (1952). The Genus Epitonium in the Western Atlantic pt 2. Jonsonia. 2(31). pp: 289
Dushane, H. (1979). The Family Epitoniidae in the Northeastern Pacific. The Veliger. 22(2). pp: 91-134
Nakayama, T. (2003). A Review of Northwest Pacific Epitoniids. Monographs of Marine Mollusca. 6. pp: 50
Boreoscala greenlandica (Perry, 1811)
Sowerby, G. B. II. (1844). Plate xxxiv. Fig. 110.
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