Vaughanites is a genus of m predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pyramimitridae . [1]
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| Shell of Vaughanites superstes | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Mitroidea |
| Family: | Pyramimitridae |
| Genus: | Vaughanites Woodring, 1928 |
| Type species | |
| † Vaughanites leptus Woodring, 1928 | |
Species
edit- † Vaughanites leptus Woodring, 1928
- Vaughanites superstes Kantor, Lozouet, Puillandre & Bouchet, 2014
Description
editThe shell is medium-sized, very slender, Mitra-like. The protoconch consists of between two and three whorls, about the last one sculptured with coarse axial riblets. The aperture is long and narrow. The siphonal canal is very long and narrow, unemarginate. The anal notch, according to growth lines and ribs, is rather wide and shallow, the apex lying on a prominent spiral some distance from suture. The columella bears two strong Mitra-like folds. The sculpture consists of strong axial and spiral cords, forming an open lattice-work. [2]
References
edit- ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Vaughanites Woodring, 1928. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=746711 on 2023-01-29
- ^ Woodring, W.P. (1928). "Miocene mollusks from Bowden, Jamaica. 2. Gastropods and discussion of results". Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication. 385 (VII): 158. Retrieved 2024-06-26.
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