Strobiligera
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| Strobiligera | |
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| Shell of Strobiligera delicata (holotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Clade: | Hypsogastropoda |
| Suborder: | Ptenoglossa |
| Superfamily: | Triphoroidea |
| Family: | Triphoridae |
| Genus: | Strobiligera Dall, 1924 |
| Type species | |
| Triforis ibex Dall, 1881 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Triphora (Strobiligera) Dall, 1924 (original rank) | |
Strobiligera is a genus of minute sea snails with left-handed shell-coiling, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Triphoridae.[1]
(Original description) The Protoconch larger than the succeeding whorl, swollen, smooth. The sutural sulcus is feeble. The siphonal canal is short and open.
There are numerous species in the deep water of the Antilles.[2]
