Glyptaesopus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Borsoniidae.
Description The small shell is slender and contains 5½ sculptured whorls with weakly incised sutures. The aperture is long and narrow and has a thin outer lip. The siphonal canal is short.Peter Jung,Miocene and Pliocene Mollusks from Trinidad; Bulletins of American paleontology v. 55 no. 247 p. 555
Species Species within the genus Glyptaesopus include: Glyptaesopus oldroydi (Arnold, 1903) Glyptaesopus phylira (Dall, 1919) Glyptaesopus proctorae (M. Smith, 1936) Glyptaesopus xenicus (Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932)
References
Pilsbry and Olsson, 1941, Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia. Proc. vol. 93. p. 36. Radwin (1968), The Systematic Position of Glyptaesopus; The Nautilus vol. 82 (1) Keen, A. M. 1971. Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Marine mollusks from Baja California to Peru, ed. 2. Stanford University Press. xv, 1064 pp., 22 pls.
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