Eglisia
Gray, 1847
Shell tall-spired and turreted; spire with many whorls, convex; surface with spiral threads and fine axial lamellae, varices weak; peripheral rib moderate; aperture elliptical or rounded; no umbilicus
Genotype:
Turritella spirata Sowerby, 1825 (original designation)
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
Nakayama, T. (2003). A Review of Northwest Pacific Epitoniids. Monographs of Marine Mollusca. 6. pp: 50
Eglisia spirata (Sowerby I, 1825)
Poppe, G.T. & Poppe, P. (2020).
Senegal
26.6mm
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