Glyptaesopus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Borsoniidae[1]

Glyptaesopus
Glyptaesopus phylira
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Borsoniidae
Genus: Glyptaesopus
Pilsbry & Olsson, 1941
Type species
Aesopus xenicus
Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932

Description

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The small shell is slender and contains 5½ sculptured whorls with weakly incised sutures. The aperture is long and narrow and has a thin outer lip. The siphonal canal is short.[2]

Species

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Species within the genus Glyptaesopus include:

References

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  • Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273-308.
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.