Engoniophos is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily of the family Nassariidae.[2]

Engoniophos
Engoniophos unicinctus shells
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Buccinoidea
Family: Nassariidae
Genus: Engoniophos
Woodring, 1928[1]
Type species
Phos erectus Guppy, 1873

Taxonomy edit

This genus was treated within family Buccinidae. It was moved to family Nassariidae in 2016.[3]

Species edit

Species within the genus Engoniophos include:

References edit

  1. ^ Woodring, W. P. (1928). Miocene mollusks from Bowden, Jamaica. Part II. Gastropods and discussion of results. Contributions to the geology and paleontology of the West Indies. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 385:vii + 564 pp., 3 figs., 40 pls. Page 263.
  2. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Engoniophos Woodring, 1928. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=415343 on 2020-11-02
  3. ^ Galindo, L. A., Puillandre, N., Utge, J., Lozouet, P., & Bouchet, P. (2016). "The phylogeny and systematics of the Nassariidae revisited (Gastropoda, Buccinoidea)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 99: 337-353. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2016.03.019
  4. ^ Engoniophos unicinctus (Say, 1826). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 April 2010.
  • Landau B., Silva C.M. da & Heitz A. (2016). Systematics of the gastropods of the Lower–Middle Miocene Cantaure Formation, Paraguaná Formation, Paraguaná peninsula, Venezuela. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 389-390: 1-581

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