Zeacolpus
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Zeacolpus is a genus of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Turritellidae, known as the turritellas or tower shells.
This genus is endemic to New Zealand.
[edit] Shell description
The shells are large, with a very tall and narrow spire of almost straight-sided whorls. The protoconch is paucispiral, partly uncoiled, with a large smooth erect nucleus, and strongly convex neanic whorls.
[edit] Species within the genus Zeacolpus
- Zeacolpus ahiparanus (Powell, 1927)
- Zeacolpus ascensus Marwick, 1957
- Zeacolpus blacki Marwick, 1957
- Zeacolpus delli Marwick, 1957
- Zeacolpus knoxi knoxi Marwick, 1957
- Zeacolpus knoxi tardior Marwick, 1957
- Zeacolpus maorius (Powell, 1940)
- Zeacolpus mixtus Finlay, 1930
- Zeacolpus pagoda pagoda (Reeve, 1849)
- Zeacolpus pagoda powelli Marwick, 1957
- Zeacolpus symmetricus (Hutton, 1873)
- Zeacolpus vittatus (Hutton, 1873)
[edit] References
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
