Thalassoplanes is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Parancistrolepidinae of the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.
Characteristics (Original description) The shell is short, with a very short siphonal canal. The operculum is straight, elongate, and wedge-shaped, its extreme apex slightly deflected to the right. The radula, typical for the group, has a formula of 1/6 + 1/0 + 1/6, with an obsolete rhachidian cusp.
The animal is blind; the male possesses a small, subcylindrical verge, lacking appendages.
Species Species within the genus Thalassoplanes include: Thalassoplanes moerchii (Dall, 1908) Synonyms Thalassoplanes modesta (Martens, 1885): synonym of Chlanidotella modesta (E. von Martens, 1885) (superseded combination)
References
Lus, V.J. (1973). New abyssal Fasciolariidae. [in Russian]. Trudy Instituta Okeanologii. 91: 203-212
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