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Genus of gastropods From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Enaeta is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Volutidae.[1]
| Enaeta | |
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| Enaeta | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Volutidae |
| Subfamily: | Volutinae |
| Genus: | Enaeta H. & A. Adams, 1853 |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Lyria (Enaeta) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 | |
The small shell has an ovate to fusiform shape. The protoconch is small and smooth. The teleoconch is covered with axial ribs. There is a conspicuous tooth-like blunt nodule on the midpoint of the outer lip. The radula is uniserial with an interlocking central cusp.[1]
This species occurs from the Caribbean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean south to Brazil and Fernando de Noronha Islands.
Species within the genus Enaeta include:
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