Epitonium

Shells are usually colorless, somewhat turreted, sometimes with umbilicus; axial sculpture of slender to heavy, sometimes recurved costae; whorls are numerous, with varying degrees of convexity, coils attached or connected only by costae; between the costae spiral sculpture may be present or absent. The aperture is round to oval, with an operculum that is thin and paucispiral.

Genotype:

Genotype, Turbo scalars Linné, subsequent designation, Suter 1918.

Literature cited:

Bouchet, P. & Warén, A. (1986). Revision of the Northeast Atlantic bathyal and abyssal Aclididae Eulimidae, Epitonidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda).. Bollettino Malacologico.. suppl. 2. pp: 297-576
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. (1951). The Genus Epitomium in the Western Atlantic pt 1. Jonsonia. 2(30). pp: 249
Dushane, H. (1974). The Panamic-Galapagan Epitoniidae.. The Veliger. 16 (Sup. 14). pp: 1-84
Dushane, H. (1979). The Family Epitoniidae in the Northeastern Pacific. The Veliger. 22(2). pp: 91-134
Kilburn, R.N (1985). The family Epitoniidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in southern Africa and Mozambique. Annals of the Natal Museum. 27(1). pp: 239-337
Nakayama, T. (2003). A Review of Northwest Pacific Epitoniids. Monographs of Marine Mollusca. 6. pp: 50