Aliceia

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

Aliceia
Shell of Aliceia sp. (museum specimen in MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Aliceia
Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1897
Type species
Aliceia aenigmatica
Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1897
Species

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The taxonomic position of Aliceia is rather uncertain. It may as well belong to the family Turridae (resembling genus Lucerapex) or to the family Clathurellidae (resembling Pleurotomoides or Famelica). The species Thatcheriasyrinx sp. Kay, 1979 may also belong to Aliceia.[2]

Species

Species within the genus Aliceia include:

References
  1. Aliceia Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1897. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  2. Alexander Sysoev , Mollusca Gastropoda: New deep-water turrid gastropods (Conoidea) from eastern Indonesia; Alain Crosnier & Philippe Bouchet, (coordonné par). Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Volume 16. Mém. Mus. natn. Hist, nat., 172: 325-355. Paris ISBN 2-85653-506-2.
  3. Aliceia aenigmatica Dautzenberg & Fischer H., 1897. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  4. Aliceia okutanii Sasaki & Warén, 2007. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  5. Aliceia simplicissima (Thiele, 1925). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.


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