Venustilifer

Taxobox
name = "Venustilifer"


image_caption =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Caenogastropoda
ordo = Sorbeoconcha
subordo = Hypsogastropoda
infraordo = Littorinimorpha
familia = Stiliferidae
genus = "Venustilifer"
genus_authority = Powell, 1927
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Venustilifer" is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Stiliferidae.

Description

The shells are small, thin and fragile, with the inflated body whorl of "Stilifer", but a low spire, and a smooth, peg-like protoconch, set obliquely to the adult shell. In "stilifer", which is truly parasitic, the pseudopallium envelops all but the apical whorls, but in "Venustilifer" it extends only to the lower part of the body whorl.

pecies within the genus "Venustilifer"

* "Venustilifer bountyensis" (Powell, 1933)

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References

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