Apaturris

Short description: Genus of gastropods

Apaturris

Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Mollusca
Class:  | Gastropoda
Subclass:  | Caenogastropoda
Order:  | Neogastropoda
Superfamily:  | Conoidea
Family:  | Borsoniidae
Genus:  | Apaturris
Iredale, 1917
Type species
Mitromorpha expeditionis

Oliver, 1915

Apaturris is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Borsoniidae.[1]

Species in this genus have a relatively deep anal sinus.[2]

## Species

Species within the genus Apaturris include:

* Apaturris costifera May, 1920
* Apaturris expeditionis (Oliver, 1915)

Species brought into synonymy

* Apaturris brazieri Hedley, C. 1918: synonym of Scrinium brazieri (Smith, 1891) [3]

## References

1. ↑ Rosenberg, G.; Bouchet, P. (2012). Apaturris. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=435295 on 2012-06-28
2. ↑ RN Kilburn, Turridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 3. Subfamily Borsoniinae; Annals of the Natal Museum, 1986
3. ↑ Hedley, C. 1918. A checklist of the marine fauna of New South Wales. Part 1. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 51: M1-M120

* Tom Iredale (1917), More Molluscan Name-Changes, Generic and Specific; Oxford Journals Science & Mathematics Journal of Molluscan Studies Volume 12, Issue 6 Pp. 322-330[|permanent dead link|dead link}}]

## External links

* Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77, 273-308

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