Cookia
Genus of gastropods
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Cookia is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.
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| Cookia | |
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| Cookia sulcata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Turbinidae |
| Genus: | Cookia Lesson, 1832[1] |
| Type species | |
| Cookia novaezelandiae Lesson, 1832 | |
Cookia is sometimes treated as a subgenus of the genus Bolma.
The genus was named after Captain James Cook.
Species
Species within the genus Cookia include:
- †Cookia kawauensis Powell, 1938
- Cookia sulcata (Lightfoot, 1786)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Cookia novaezelandiae Lesson, 1832: synonym of Cookia sulcata (Lightfoot, 1786)
