Eulima Risso 1826
- Dataset
- Revision of the deep-sea Eulimidae (Gastropoda, Caenogastropoda) from off Northeast Brazil
- Rank
- GENUS
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Mollusca
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Littorinimorpha
- family
- Eulimidae
- genus
- Eulima
diagnosis
Diagnosis. Shell elongated, slender, small to large (5 – 15 mm), commonly presents brownish / yellowish spiral and / or axial bands close or at the suture; protoconch smooth, usually conical, whorls slightly convex; teleoconch smooth, with flat (more frequently) or slightly convex whorls; sutures almost indistinct; aperture elongated, slender, outer lip usually straight or slightly sinuous, distinct callus on the parietal wall and the columella; umbilicus absent (adapted from Bouchet & Warén 1986; Warén 1989).
type_taxon
Type species. Turbo subulatus Donovan, 1804 [= Eulima glabra (da Costa, 1778)], by subsequent designation; Recent, Northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean.
Name
- Homonyms
- Eulima Risso 1826
- Eulima Risso 1826
- Eulima