Phenatoma is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Borsoniidae.[2]

Phenatoma
Apertural view of a shell of Phenatoma zealandica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Borsoniidae
Genus: Phenatoma
Finlay, 1924[1]
Type species
Pleurotoma novaezelandiae
Reeve, 1843

Species

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Species within the genus Phenatoma include:

Species brought into synonymy
  • Phenatoma (Cryptomella) crassispiralis Marwick, 1929: synonym of † Tomopleura crassispiralis (Marwick, 1929)
  • Phenatoma novaezelandiae (Reeve, 1843):[5] synonym of Phenatoma rosea (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)
  • Phenatoma (Cryptomella) crassispiralis Marwick, 1929: synonym of † Tomopleura crassispiralis (Marwick, 1929) (original combination)

References

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  1. ^ Finlay H. J. (1924). Trans. New Zealand Inst. 55: 515.
  2. ^ WoRMS (2009). Phenatoma. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2009) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=432533 on 12 August 2011
  3. ^ WoRMS (2009). Phenatoma rosea (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2009) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=434595 on 2010-09-20
  4. ^ WoRMS (2009). Phenatoma zealandica (Smith E. A., 1877). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2009) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=434596 on 2010-09-20
  5. ^ WoRMS (2009). Phenatoma novaezelandiae (Reeve, 1843). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2009) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=434594 on 2010-09-20

Further reading

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  • Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
  • Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273-308.
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.