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Sediliopsis

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Sediliopsis
Shell of † Sediliopsis chowanensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Sediliopsis
Petuch, 1988
Type species
Pleurotoma gracilis
Conrad, 1830
Species

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Sediliopsis is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[1]

This genus was long considered as extinct since the late Miocene, until Sedeliopsis riosi was discovered off Brazil, obviously a relict-pocket occurrence.[2]

Species

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Species within the genus Sediliopsis include:

References

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  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
  • P. Bouchet; Yu. I. Kantor; A. Sysoev; N. Puillandre (2011). "A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda)" (PDF). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77 (3): 273–308. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr017.
  • Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Pseudomelatomidae