Echinophoria

Echinophoria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda cladeHypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Tonnoidea
Family:	Cassidae
Genus:	Echinophoria Sacco, 1890
Synonyms[1]
Bathygalea Woodring & Olsson, 1957 † Trachydolium Howe, 1926

Echinophoria is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cassidae, the helmet snails and bonnet snails. ^[1]

Species

Species within the genus Echinophoria include:

• Echinophoria bituberculosa (Martens, 1901)
• Echinophoria carnosa Kuroda & Habe in Habe, 1961
• Echinophoria coronadoi (Crosse, 1867) ^[2]
• Echinophoria hadra (Woodring & Olsson, 1957)
• Echinophoria mozambicana Bozzetti, Rosado & T. Cossignani, 2010
• Echinophoria pilsbryi (Woodring & Olsson, 1957)
• Echinophoria wyvillei Watson, 1886)

Species brought into synonymy:

• Echinophoria kurodai (Abbott, 1968): synonym of Echinophoria wyvillei (Watson, 1886)
• Echinophoria oschei Mühlhäusser, 1992: synonym of Echinophoria wyvillei (Watson, 1886)

References

1. Bouchet, P. (2010). Echinophoria Sacco, 1890. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=415332 on 2012-06-27
2. Echinophoria coronadoi(Crosse, 1867). WoRMS (2010). Echinophoria coronadoi (Crosse, 1867). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species athttp://www.marinespecies.eu/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=419779 on 14 August 2010.

• Beu A.G. (2008) Recent deep-water Cassidae of the world. A revision of Galeodea, Oocorys, Sconsia, Echinophoria and related taxa, with new genera and species (Mollusca, Gastropoda). In Héros V., Cowie R.H. & Bouchet P. (eds), Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 25. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 196: 269-387. page(s): 363