Where the snails have no name: a molecular phylogeny of Raphitomidae (Neogastropoda: Conoidea) uncovers vast unexplored diversity in the deep seas of temperate southern and eastern Australia
Author
Criscione, Francesco
Author
Hallan, Anders
Author
Puillandre, Nicolas
Author
Fedosov, Alexander
text
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
2021
191
961
1000
journal article
0024-4082
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GLADIOBELA
GEN. NOV.
Z o o B a n k r e g i s t r a t i o n
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.
Type
species:
Gladiobela angulata
. OD, herein.
Etymology:
The name is composed of the Latin noun
gladius
, sword, for the long blade of its hypodermic tooth, and the Greek βέλος, arrow, from the genus name
Bela
Leach, 1847
, indicating similarity to
Gymnobela
. The gender is feminine
Diagnosis
Shell (
Fig. 4A
) fusiform-biconical, semitranslucent. Protoconch multispiral, lower whorl portion diagonally cancellate, upper portion with arcuate sculpture only. Teleoconch with broad whorls with shoulder situated at mid-height of whorl. Anal sinus wide, U-shaped. Animal with long, cylindrical tentacles; eyes small. Radula (
Fig. 6B
) of hypodermic
type
, awl-shaped, with long adapical opening; dorsal blade extremely long; base broad, angular.