“Genus CHLANIFICULA n.gen.
Type: Chlanificula thielei n.sp.
This is another problematic member of the Chlanidota complex, represented unfortunately only by a single adult dead shell. It cannot be accommodated readily in either Chlanidota or Notoficula but its relationship should prove to be nearer to the latter.
It resembles Notoficula in the deeply excavated inner lip but has a much more strongly spirally flexed pillar and a longer and more reflexed canal. The whorling is also different in being more tightly coiled with a much higher spire and a deeply channelled suture. The sculpture is in the form of strong spiral ridges. The protoconch is badly eroded but is evidently bluntly rounded and paucispiral.
The anterior canal on Notoficula is a simple unnotched spout, that of Chlanidota is short and deeply notched with a prominent ridged fasciole while that of Chlanificula is relatively long, reflexed and shallowly notched with only an ill defined fasciole, not marked off by a ridge.”
(Powell, 1958: 193)
Chlanificula is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.[1]
Species within the genus Chlanificula include:
Chlanificula is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.
