Zemacies

Short description: Genus of gastropods

Zemacies

Shell of the extinct species Zemacies marginalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Mollusca
Class:  | Gastropoda
Subclass:  | Caenogastropoda
Order:  | Neogastropoda
Superfamily:  | Conoidea
Family:  | Borsoniidae
Genus:  | Zemacies
Finlay, 1926
Type species
† Zemacies elatior Finlay, H.J., 1926

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

Most species in this genus are extinct. Their age range is 55.8 to 11.608 Ma.[2]

## Species

Species within the genus Zemacies include:

* † Zemacies armata Powell, 1942
* † Zemacies awakinoensis Powell, 1942
* † Zemacies climacota (Suter, 1917)
* † Zemacies conspicua (May, 1922)
* † Zemacies elatior Finlay, 1926
* Zemacies excelsa Sysoev & Bouchet, 2001[3]
* † Zemacies finlayi Stilwell & Zinsmeister, 1992
* † Zemacies hamiltoni (Hutton, 1905)
* † Zemacies immatura Finlay & Marwick, 1937
* † Zemacies inexpectata Powell, 1944
* † Zemacies laciniata (Suter, 1917)
* † Zemacies lividorupis Laws, 1935
* † Zemacies marginalis (P. Marshall, 1919)
* † Zemacies ordinaria (P. Marshall, 1918)
* † Zemacies prendrevillei Marwick, 1928
* † Zemacies procerior Darragh, 1997
* Zemacies queenslandica (Powell, 1969)[4]
* † Zemacies simulacrum Laws, 1935
* † Zemacies torticostata (P. Marshall, 1919)

Synonyms

* † Zemacies canalomos Stilwell & Zinsmeister, 1992: synonym of † Aforia canalomos (Stilwell & Zinsmeister, 1992)

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Zemacies Finlay, 1926. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 12 August 2011.
2. ↑ Fossilworks : Zemacies
3. ↑ Zemacies excelsa Sysoev & Bouchet, 2001. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
4. ↑ Zemacies queenslandica (Powell, 1969). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.

* H. Finlay, New Shells from New Zealand Tertiary Beds, pt. 2, Trans. N. Z. Inst., vol. 56, p. 252.

## External links

* Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273-308
* R. Tucker-Abbott & W.J. Clench, Indo-Pacific Mollusca vol. 2 # 9-10 (1968)

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