Fenimorea is a genus of carnivorous sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Drilliidae.
Description (Original description) The shell is large. The whorls of the protoconch are well rounded and smooth. The whorls of the spire show strong, broad axial ribs that are retractively bent and reduced in the depressed groove below the summit and extend anteriorly to the fasciole on the base. The finer sculpture on the ribs and intercostal spaces consists of decidedly wavy incised spiral lines and fine incremental lines, which vary in strength. The combination of these two elements gives to the surface a peculiar effect, resembling the scales on some butterfly wings. This sculpture extends to the basal fasciole. The fasciole itself and the area immediately posterior to it, as well as the rest of the columella, are marked by spiral threads. The aperture is moderately long and broad and strongly channeled anteriorly. The basal sinus is deep and reflected at the edge with a strong parietal callus. The stromboid notch is shallow.Bartsch, P. (1934) Reports on the collections obtained by the first Johnson-Smithsonian deep-sea expedition to the Puerto Rican deep; new mollusks of the family Turritidae. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 91, 1–29, 8 pls
Species Species within the genus Fenimorea include: Fenimorea abscondita Fallon, 2016 Fenimorea alba Fallon, 2016 Fenimorea biminensis Fallon, 2016 Fenimorea caysalensis Fallon, 2016 Fenimorea chaaci (Espinosa & Rolán, 1995) Fenimorea contracta Fallon, 2016 Fenimorea crocea Fallon, 2016 Fenimorea culexensis Nowell-Usticke, 1969 Fenimorea elongata Fallon, 2016 Fenimorea fabae Fallon, 2016 Fenimorea fucata (Reeve, 1845) Fenimorea glennduffyi Fallon, 2016 Fenimorea janetae Bartsch, 1934 Fenimorea jongreenlawi Fallon, 2016 Fenimorea kathyae Tippett, 1995 Fenimorea mackintoshi Fallon, 2016 Fenimorea marmarina (Watson, 1881) Fenimorea moseri (Dall, 1889) Fenimorea nivalis Fallon, 2016 Fenimorea pagodula (Dall, 1889) Fenimorea petiti Tippett, 1995 Fenimorea phasma (Schwengel, 1940) Fenimorea sunderlandi (Petuch, 1987) Fenimorea tartaneata Fallon, 2016 Fenimorea tessellata Fallon, 2016 Fenimorea tippetti Fallon, 2016 Species brought into synonymy Fenimorea brunnescens Rehder, 1943: synonym of Bellaspira brunnescens (Rehder, 1943) Fenimorea halidorema Schwengel, 1940: synonym of Decoradrillia pulchella (Reeve, 1845) Fenimorea pentapleura J.S. Schwengel, 1940: synonym of Bellaspira pentagonalis (W.H. Dall, 1889) Fenimorea pulchra G.W. Nowell-Usticke, 1959 : synonym of Fenimorea fucata (Reeve, 1845) Fenimorea ustickei (Nowell-Usticke, 1959): synonym of Neodrillia cydia Bartsch, 1943 Nomen dubium Fenimorea paria (Reeve, 1846)
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WMSDB - Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: family Drilliidae De Jong K.M. & Coomans H.E. (1988) Marine gastropods from Curaçao, Aruba and Bonaire. Leiden: E.J. Brill. 261 pp.