Aforia

Short description: Genus of gastropods

Aforia

Apertural view of a shell of Aforia circinata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Mollusca
Class:  | Gastropoda
Subclass:  | Caenogastropoda
Order:  | Neogastropoda
Superfamily:  | Conoidea
Family:  | Cochlespiridae
Genus:  | Aforia
Dall, 1889
Type species
Pleurotoma circinata

Dall, 1873

Synonyms[1]

* Aforia (Abyssaforia) Sysoev & Kantor, 1987
* Aforia (Aforia) Dall, 1889
* Aforia (Dallaforia) Sysoev & Kantor, 1987
* Danilacarina Bozzetti, 1997
* Irenosyrinx Dall, 1908
* Mangilia (Aforia) Dall, 1889 (original rank)
* Steiraxis Dall, 1896

Aforia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cochlespiridae.[1][2]

## Description

The shell resembles Irenosyrinx, but with stronger sculpture and with a paucispiral operculum, bearing such a relation to the normal species of Turris as Mohnia bears to Chrysodomus.[3]

## Species

Species within the genus Aforia include:

* Aforia abyssalis Sysoev & Kantor, 1987[4]
* † Aforia canalomos (Stilwell & Zinsmeister, 1992)
* Aforia circinata (Dall, 1873)[5]
* Aforia crebristriata (Dall, 1908)[6]
* Aforia goniodes (Watson, 1881)[7]
* Aforia goodei (Dall, 1890)[8]
* Aforia hedleyi (Dell, 1990)
* Aforia hypomela (Dall, 1889)
* Aforia indomaris Sysoev & Kantor, 1988[9]
* Aforia inoperculata Sysoev & Kantor, 1988[10]
* Aforia kincaidi (Dall, 1919)[11]
* Aforia kupriyanovi Sysoev & Kantor, 1987[12]
* Aforia magnifica (Strebel, 1908)[13]
* Aforia moskalevi Sysoev & Kantor, 1987[14]
* Aforia multispiralis Dell, 1990[15]
* Aforia obesa Pastorino & Sánchez, 2016
* Aforia persimilis (Dall, 1890)
* Aforia serranoi Gofas, Kantor & Luque, 2014
* Aforia staminea (Watson, 1881)[16]
* Aforia tasmanica Sysoev & Kantor, 1988[17]
* Aforia trilix (Watson, 1881)[18]
* Aforia watsoni Kantor, Harasewych & Puillandre, 2016 (interim unpublished)

Extinct species from the Oligocene in Northern America

* † Aforia addicotti Javidpour, 1973
* † Aforia campbelli Durham 1944
* † Aforia dallamensis (Weaver, 1916)
* † Aforia ecuadoriana Olsson 1964 (Pliocene of Ecuador)
* † Aforia tricarinata Addicott, 1966
* † Aforia wardi (Tegland, 1933)

Species brought into synonymy

* Aforia aulaca (Dall, 1896): synonym of Steiraxis aulaca (Dall, 1896)
* Aforia chosenensis Bartsch, 1945: synonym of Aforia insignis (Jeffreys, 1883)
* Aforia diomedea Bartsch, 1945: synonym of Aforia circinata (Dall, 1873)
* Aforia gonoides (Watson, 1881 : synonym of Aforia goniodes (Watson, 1881)
* Aforia hondoana (Dall, 1925):[19] synonym of Aforia circinata (Dall, 1873)
* Aforia insignis (Jeffreys, 1883): synonym of Aforia circinata (Dall, 1873)
* Aforia japonica Bartsch, 1945: synonym of Aforia circinata (Dall, 1873)
* Aforia lepta (Watson, 1881):[20] synonym of Aforia watsoni Kantor, Harasewych & Puillandre, 2016
* Aforia okhotskensis Bartsch, 1945:[21] synonym of Aforia circinata (Dall, 1873)
* Aforia sakhalinensis Bartsch, 1945:[22] synonym of Aforia circinata (Dall, 1873)

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Aforia Dall, 1889. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 29 August 2011.
2. ↑ P. Bouchet; Yu. I. Kantor; A. Sysoev; N. Puillandre (2011). "A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda)". Journal of Molluscan Studies 77 (3): 273–308. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr017.
3. ↑ W.H. Dall (1908) Reports on the Mollusca and Brachiopoda, Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. vol. 43 (described as Steiraxis)
4. ↑ Aforia abyssalis Sysoev & Kantor, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
5. ↑ Aforia circinata (Dall, 1873). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
6. ↑ Aforia crebristriata (Dall, 1908). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
7. ↑ Aforia goniodes (Watson, 1881). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
8. ↑ Aforia goodei (Dall, 1890). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
9. ↑ Aforia indomaris Sysoev & Kantor, 1988. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
10. ↑ Aforia inoperculata Sysoev & Kantor, 1988. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
11. ↑ Aforia kincaidi (Dall, 1919). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
12. ↑ Aforia kupriyanovi Sysoev & Kantor, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
13. ↑ Aforia magnifica (Strebel, 1908). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
14. ↑ Aforia moskalevi Sysoev & Kantor, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
15. ↑ Aforia multispiralis Dell, 1990. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
16. ↑ Aforia staminea (Watson, 1881). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
17. ↑ Aforia tasmanica Sysoev & Kantor, 1988. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
18. ↑ Aforia trilix (Watson, 1881). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
19. ↑ Aforia hondoana (Dall, 1925). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
20. ↑ Aforia lepta (Watson, 1881). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
21. ↑ Aforia okhotskensis Bartsch, 1945. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
22. ↑ Aforia sakhalinensis Bartsch, 1945. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.

* Bozzetti L. (1997) Description of a new genus and a new species (Gastropoda: Turridae, Turriculinae) from the Kerguelen Islands, southern Indian Ocean / Descrizione di un nuovo genere ed una nuova specie (Gastropoda: Turridae, Turriculinae) dalle Isole Kerguelen, Oceano Indiano meridionale. World Shells 23: 42–44
* Wiese V. (2001) Comments on a "new" turrid species from Kerguelen. Schriften zur Malakozoologie 18: 33–34
* GOFAS, Serge, Yuri KANTOR, and Ángel A. LUQUE. "A new Aforia (Gastropoda: Conoidea: Cochlespiridae) from Galicia Bank (NW Iberian Peninsula)." (2014): 45–51.
* Sysoev & Kantor, Deep-sea gastropods of the genus Aforia (Turridae) of the Pacific: Species composition, Systematics, and functional morphology of the digerstive system; The Veliger, California Malacozoological Society Northern California Malacozoological Club v.30 (1987-1988)

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