Thatcheria

Genus of gastropods From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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

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Thatcheria
Shell and protoconch of Thatcheria mirabilis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Thatcheria
Angas, 1877
Type species
Thatcheria mirabilis
Angas, 1877
Species

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Synonyms[1]
  • Cochlioconus Yokoyama, 1928
  • Waitara Marwick, 1931
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Description

(Original description) The solid shell is angularly pyriform. The spire is prominent, shorter than the aperture. It is many-whorled with whorls flattened above, strongly keeled at the periphery and contracted below. The aperture shows a broad incurved sinus between the extremity of the last keel and the junction of the body whorl. The siphonal canal is wide and open. The columella is smooth. The outer lip is simple below the sinus.[2]

Species

Species within the genus Thatcheria include:

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