Zeacolpus

Taxobox
name = "Zeacolpus"


image_caption = "Zeacolpus vittatus"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
infraclassis = Apogastropoda
superordo = Caenogastropoda
ordo = Sorbeoconcha
subordo = Cerithiimorpha
superfamilia = Cerithioidea
familia = Turritellidae
genus = "Zeacolpus"
genus_authority = Finlay, 1927
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Zeacolpus" is a genus of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Turritellidae, known as the turritellas or tower shells.

Distribution

This genus is endemic to New Zealand.

hell description

The shells are large, with a very tall and narrow spire of almost straight-sided whorls. The protoconch is , partly uncoiled, with a large smooth erect nucleus, and strongly convex neanic whorls.

pecies within the genus "Zeacolpus"

* "Zeacolpus ahiparanus" (Powell, 1927)
* "Zeacolpus ascensus" Marwick, 1957
* "Zeacolpus blacki" Marwick, 1957
* "Zeacolpus delli" Marwick, 1957
* "Zeacolpus knoxi knoxi" Marwick, 1957
* "Zeacolpus knoxi tardior" Marwick, 1957
* "Zeacolpus maorius" (Powell, 1940)
* "Zeacolpus mixtus" Finlay, 1930
* "Zeacolpus pagoda pagoda" (Reeve, 1849)
* "Zeacolpus pagoda powelli" Marwick, 1957
* "Zeacolpus symmetricus" (Hutton, 1873)
* "Zeacolpus vittatus" (Hutton, 1873)

References

* Powell A. W. B., "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1