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Enaeta

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Gastropoda

Family
  
Volutidae

Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Superfamily
  
Muricoidea

Subfamily
  
Volutinae

Similar
  
Alcithoe, Lyria, Scaphella, Adelomelon

Enaeta barnesi 01 wmv


Enaeta is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Volutidae.

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Description

The small shell has an ovate to fusiform shape. The protoconch is small and smooth. The teleoconch is covered with axial ribs. There is a conspicuous tooth-like blunt nodule on the midpoint of the outer lip. The radula is uniserial with an interlocking central cusp.

Distribution

This species occurs from the Caribbean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean south to Brazil and Fernando de Noronha Islands.

Species

Species within the genus Enaeta include:

  • Enaeta barnesii (Gray, 1825)
  • Enaeta cumingii (Broderip, 1832)
  • Enaeta cylleniformis (Sowerby I, 1844)
  • Enaeta guildingii (Sowerby I, 1844)
  • Enaeta leonardhilli Petuch, 1982
  • Enaeta reevei (Dall, 1907)

    • References

    Enaeta Wikipedia
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