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genus

Kylix Dall, 1919

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Neogastropoda »  family Drilliidae

Description

Shell of moderate size, 13-19 mm., claviform, with a tall spire of rather flattened out¬lines, and a rounded body-whorl, contracted to a distinct neck, and a moderately long, slightly flexed, weakly to distinctly notched anterior canal. Protoconch of two polished prominently peripherally keeled whorls. Adult sculpture of numerous rather flexuous fold-like axial ribs, deeply incised by spiral linear grooves. Sinus subsutural, rounded, rather wide and with a slightly flaring edge. Outer lip thin; inner lip smooth callused, with¬out, or with a very slight parietal callus pad. Radula prototypic, with a mere vestige of a central plate, a deep narrow-based comb-like lateral, and a long slender flexuous simple-pointed marginal, bifid basally and for two-thirds of its length
Powell, 1966.
Author: Jan Delsing

Included taxa

Number of records: 11

species Kylix alcyone W. H. Dall, 1919

Kylix alcyone

species Kylix contracta F. S. McLean & L. H. Poorman, 1971

Kylix contracta

species Kylix halocydne W. H. Dall, 1919

Kylix halocydne

species Kylix hebuca W. H. Dall, 1919

Kylix hebuca

species Kylix ianthe W. H. Dall, 1919

Kylix ianthe

species Kylix impressa R. B. Hinds, 1843

Kylix impressa

species Kylix panamella W. H. Dall, 1908

Kylix panamella

species Kylix paziana W. H. Dall, 1919

Kylix paziana

species Kylix rugifera Sowerby, 1834

Kylix rugifera

species Kylix woodringi J.H. McLean & L.H. Poorman, 1971

Kylix woodringi

species Kylix zacae J. G. Hertlein & A. M. Strong, 1951

Kylix zacae


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