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| Cookia | |
|---|---|
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| Cookia sulcata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Turbinidae |
| Genus: | Cookia Lesson, 1832[1] |
| Type species | |
| Cookia novaezelandiae Lesson, 1832 | |
Cookia is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.
Cookia is sometimes treated as a subgenus of the genus Bolma. [1]
The genus was named after Captain James Cook.
Species[edit]
Species within the genus Cookia include:
- †Cookia kawauensis Powell, 1938
- Cookia sulcata (Lightfoot, 1786)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Cookia novaezelandiae Lesson, 1832: synonym of Cookia sulcata (Lightfoot, 1786)
References[edit]
- ^ Lesson R. P. (1832). Illustr. de Zool. (5): pl. 15.
- Alf A. & Kreipl K. (2011) The family Turbinidae. Subfamilies Turbininae Rafinesque, 1815 and Prisogasterinae Hickman & McLean, 1990. In: G.T. Poppe & K. Groh (eds), A Conchological Iconography. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. pp. 1–82, pls 104-245
Further reading[edit]
- Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
- Glen Pownall, New Zealand Shells and Shellfish, Seven Seas Publishing Pty Ltd, Wellington, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-85467-054-8
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