Scaphella
| Scaphella | |
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| A shell of Scaphella junonia | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Volutidae |
| Subfamily: | Scaphellinae |
| Genus: |
Scaphella Swainson, 1832 |
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Scaphella is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Volutidae, the volutes.
This is a tropical genus which occurs in the Western Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea.
There are both living and fossil species in this genus, which first appeared in the Paleocene. [1]. The fusiform, patterned shell is small to large. The is smooth and papilliform, often with a calcarella. The columellar plates are weak or absent. The periostracum is present, but an operculum is not. The radula is small, and variable from Y-shaped to tricuspid.
Species within the genus Scaphella include:
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