Cordieria
Genus of gastropods / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cordieria is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Borsoniidae.[1]
Quick Facts Cordieria Temporal range: Cretaceous to Recent, Scientific classification ...
Cordieria Temporal range: Cretaceous to Recent | |
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Cordieria rouaultii | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Borsoniidae |
Genus: | Cordieria Rouault, 1848 |
Type species | |
† Cordieria iberica Rouault, 1848 |
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This genus is considered by the French malacologist Maurice Cossmann separate from Borsonia, not on the basis of the columellar plaits alone, but mostly because of the shorter siphonal canal and a number of other characteristics that he enumerates.