Famelica Bouchet & Waren 1980

• Main Authors: Figueira, Raquel Medeiros Andrade, Absalão, Ricardo Silva
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2012
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Mollusca; Gastropoda; Neogastropoda; Raphitomidae; Famelica; Ricardo; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5632942; https://zenodo.org/record/5632942

Famelica Bouchet & Warén, 1980 Type species: Pleurotomella catharinae Verrill & Smith, 1884 in Verrill, 1884 by original designation. Remarks: This genus is characterized by a very slender, spirally sculptured shell of small to moderate size. It shares with Aliceia a similar protoconch, sculptured with a middle keel and axial riblets below it. The type species, F. catharinae , has a long anterior siphonal canal and a moderately deep anal sinus. : Published as part of Figueira, Raquel Medeiros Andrade & Absalão, Ricardo Silva, 2012, Deep-water Raphitomidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Conoidea) from the Campos Basin, southeast Brazil, pp. 1-27 in Zootaxa 3527 on page 6, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.210977 : {"references": ["Bouchet, P. & Waren, A. (1980) Revision of the Northeast Atlantic Bathyal and abyssal Turridae (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies, Supplement 8, 1 - 119.", "Verrill, A. E. (1884) Second catalogue of Mollusca, recently added to the fauna of New-England coast and adjacent parts of the Atlantic, consisting mostly of deep-sea species, with notes on others previously recorded. Transactions of the Conneticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 6 (1), 139 - 294."]}