Cochlespirinae

Cochlespirinae
A live specimen of Megasurcula carpenteriana on the sea bed
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Turridae
Subfamily:	Cochlespirinae Powell, 1942
Genera
See text.

The Cochlespirinae is a subfamily of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks, belonging to the family Turridae,^[1] commonly named turrids.

Genera

Genera in the subfamily Cochlespirinae include:^[2]

• Abyssocomitas Sysoev & Kantor, 1986
• Aforia Dall, 1889
• Ancistrosyrinx Dall, 1881
• Anticomitas Powell, 1942
• Antimelatoma Powell, 1942
• Antiplanes Dall, 1902
• Apiotoma Cossmann, 1889
• Carinoturris Bartsch, 1944
• Clavosurcula Schepman, 1913
• Cochlespira Conrad, 1865
• Comitas Finlay, 1926
• Fusiturricula Woodring, 1928
• Irenosyrinx Dall, 1908
• Knefastia Dall, 1919
• Leucosyrinx Dall, 1889
• Marshallena Finlay, 1926
• Megasurcula Casey, 1904
• Micropleurotoma Thiele, 1929
• Nihonia McNeil, 1961
• Paracomitas Powell, 1942
• Pyrgospira McLean, 1971
• Rectiplanes Bartsch, 1944
• Rhodopetoma Bartsch, 1944
• Shutonia van der Bijl, 1993
• Steiraxis Dall, 1896
• Toxicochlespira Sysoev & Kantor, 1990
• Vexitomina Powell, 1942

References

1. ^ Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (Ed.) (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia 47(1-2). ISBN 3-925919-72-4. 397 pp.
2. ^ WoRMS - World register of marine Species