Gaillea

Gaillea is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Eosiphonidae.

Gaillea
Shell of Gaillea coriolis (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Buccinoidea
Family:	Eosiphonidae
Genus:	Gaillea Kantor, Puillandre, Fraussen, Fedosov & Bouchet, 2013
Type species
Eosipho coriolis Bouchet & Warén, 1986

Species

Species within the genus Gaillea include:

• Gaillea canetae (Clench & Aguayo, 1944)
• Gaillea coriolis (Bouchet & Warén, 1986)
• Gaillea engonia (Bouchet & Warén, 1986)
• Gaillea tosaensis (Okutani & Iwahori, 1992)

References

• Bouchet, P. & Warén, A., 1986. Mollusca Gastropoda: Taxonomical notes on tropical deep water Buccinidae with descriptions of new taxa. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 133("1985"): 457-517
• Fraussen, K.; Stahlschmidt, P. (2016). The extensive Indo-Pacific deep-water radiation of Manaria E.A. Smith, 1906 (Gastropoda: Buccinidae) and related genera, with descriptions of 21 new species. in: Héros, V. et al. (Ed.) Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 29. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (1993). 208: 363–456.

External links

• Kantor Yu.I., Puillandre N., Fraussen K., Fedosov A.E. & Bouchet P. (2013) Deep-water Buccinidae (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda) from sunken wood, vents and seeps: Molecular phylogeny and taxonomy. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 93(8): 2177-2195.