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Eosipho

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Eosipho
Shell of Eosipho smithi (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Buccinoidea
Family: Eosiphonidae
Genus: Eosipho
Thiele, 1929
Type species
Chrysodomus smithi Schepman, 1911
Synonyms[1]
  • Neptunea (Eosipho) Thiele, 1929
  • Sipho (Eosipho) Thiele, 1929

Eosipho is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Eosiphonidae, the true whelks and their allies.[1]

Species

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Species within the genus Eosipho include:[1]

Species brought into synonymy

References

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  • Bouchet P. & Warén A. (1986 ["1985"]) Mollusca Gastropoda: Taxonomical notes on tropical deep water Buccinidae with descriptions of new taxa. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, A, 133: 457–517.
  • Fraussen K. & Stahlschmidt P. , 2016. The extensive Indo-Pacific deep-water radiation of Manaria E. A. Smith, 1906 (Gastropoda: Buccinidae) and related genera, with descriptions of 21 new species, in HEROS V., STRONG E. & BOUCHET P. (eds), Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 29. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 208: 363-456
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