Genota

Genus of gastropods

Genota

Apertural view of a shell of Genota papalis
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Mollusca
Class:  | Gastropoda
Subclass:  | Caenogastropoda
Order:  | Neogastropoda
Superfamily:  | Conoidea
Family:  | Borsoniidae
Genus:  | Genota
H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853
Type species
Murex mitriformis

Wood W., 1828

Synonyms[1]

* Genotia P. Fischer, 1883 (Invalid: unjustified emendation of Genota)
* Genotia (Genotia) P. Fischer, 1883
* Pleurotoma (Genota) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853
* Turris (Genota) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 (original rank as subgenus)

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

## Description[edit]

The shell is narrowly obconic and cancellated. The body whorl gradually tapers to a but slightly developed siphonal canal. The sinus of the lip is wide and shallow. The aperture is long and narrow with subparallel margins. The operculum is unguiculate.[2]

## Species[edit]

Species within the genus Genota include:

* † Genota bonnanii Bellardi, 1877
* † Genota craverii Bellardi, 1877
* † Genota domenechae Vera-Peláez & Lozano-Francisco, 2001
* † Genota gonzalesi Shuto, 1969
* Genota joleaudi Stchepinsky, 1936 [3]
* † Genota jogjacartensis K. Martin, 1914
* † Genota maximei Ceulemans, Van Dingenen & Landau, 2018
* † Genota mayeri Bellardi, 1877
* Genota mitriformis (Wood W., 1828)
* Genota nicklesi Knudsen, 1952[4]
* Genota papalis (Reeve, 1843)
* † Genota proavia Bellardi, 1877
* † Genota pseudoelisae Landau, Harzhauser, İslamoğlu & C. M. Silva, 2013
* † Genota ramosa (Basterot, 1825)
* † Genota valeriae (Hoernes & Auinger, 1891)

Species brought into synonymy

* † Genota lusitaniae Vera-Peláez & Lozano-Francisco, 2001: synonym of † Genota bonnanii Bellardi, 1877 (junior subjective synonym)
* Genota marchadi [sic] : synonym of Genota nicklesi Knudsen, 1952
* Genota marchandi Pin, 1996 : synonym of Genota nicklesi Knudsen, 1952
* Genota mitraeformis (Kiener, 1839) : synonym of Genota mitriformis (Wood W., 1828)
* Genota nigeriensis Vera-Peláez, 2004 : synonym of Genota nicklesi Knudsen, 1952
* Genota vafra Sykes, 1905 : synonym of Genota mitriformis (Wood W., 1828)

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b Bouchet, P. (2015). Genota H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=225379 on 2016-03-09
2. ^ G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences (p. 154)
3. ^ MNHN, Paris: Genota joleaudi
4. ^ Knudsen, J. (1952). "Marine prosobranchs of tropical West Africa collected by the Atlantide Expedition, 1945–46". ' Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening i Kjobenhavn. 114: 129–185, 1 fig. 12pl.

* Fontannes (F.), 1880 - Les Invertébrés du bassin tertiaire du Sud-Est de la France. Les Mollusques pliocènes de la vallée du Rhone et du Roussillon. Tome 1er: Gastéropodes des formations marines et saumatres. livraison 3, p. 169-258
* Ryall P., Horro J. & Rolán E. 2013. A revision of the genus Genota H. & A. Adams, 1853 (Gastropoda: Conoidea: Borsonidae) from West Africa. Iberus, 31(2): 1-17.

## External links[edit]

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* Gray, J. E. (1847). A list of the genera of recent Mollusca, their synonyma and types. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1847) 15: 129-219
* Adams H. & Adams A. (1853-1858). The genera of recent Mollusca; arranged according to their organization. London, van Voorst.
* Cossmann, M. (1896). Essais de paléoconchologie comparée. Deuxième livraison. Paris, The author and Comptoir Géologique. 179 pp., 8 pls.
* Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
* Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77, 273-308

Taxon identifiers

Genota|

* Wikidata: Q10288749
* BOLD: 181415
* GBIF: 4369103
* IRMNG: 1306453
* NCBI: 906830
* Open Tree of Life: 652076
* Paleobiology Database: 11152
* Plazi: 296FCC06-5C9F-5297-98EF-0A60AF6AC714
* WoRMS: 225379
* ZooBank: 0F470454-1C59-416B-AF38-CD510B2F35B2