Lusitanops is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae.
Description This genus is characterized by a reticulated sculpture, a large, inflated body whorl, a short siphonal canal and the lack of a sinus.Bouchet, Philippe, and Anders Warén. "Revision of the northeast Atlantic bathyal and abyssal Turridae (Mollusca, Gastropoda)." Journal of Molluscan Studies 46.Supplement_8 (1980): 1-119.
Fossils of Lusitanops gigasei were found in Pliocene strata at Kallo, Belgium; age range: 6 to 2.588 Ma.
Species Species within the genus Lusitanops include: Lusitanops blanchardi (Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1896) Lusitanops bullioides (Sykes, 1906) Lusitanops cingulatus Bouchet & Warén, 1980 Lusitanops dictyota Sysoev, 1997 Lusitanops expansus (Sars G.O., 1878) † Lusitanops gigasei Marquet 1998 The Pliocene turrid gastropods of Belgium. Part 2: Conidae (genera Asthenotoma, Comarmondia, Cytharella, Mangelia, Lusitanops, Raphitoma and Philbertia). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique Sciences de la Terre, 68 1998: 263-267. Lusitanops hyaloides (Dautzenberg, 1925) Lusitanops lusitanicus (Sykes, 1906)"Lusitanops lusitanicus (Sykes 1906 : Pleurotomella)". CLEMAM, accessed 3 October 2010. Lusitanops macrapex Bouchet & Warén, 1980 Lusitanops sigmoideus Bouchet & Warén, 1980 Species brought into synonymy † Lusitanops bulbiformis Lozouet, 1999:New species of gastropods (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from Oligocene and Lower Miocene of Aquitaine (southwestern France). (Part 2.) Cossmanniana, 6(1-2), Decembre 1999: 1-68. 40 synonym of † Pseudolusitanops bulbiformis (Lozouet, 1999) (original combination) Lusitanops cingulata: synonym of Lusitanops cingulatus Bouchet & Warén, 1980 Lusitanops expansa (Sars G. O., 1878): synonym of Lusitanops expansus (Sars G. O., 1878) Lusitanops lusitanica [sic] : synonym of Lusitanops lusitanicus (Sykes, 1906) Lusitanops sigmoidea: synonym of Lusitanops sigmoideus Bouchet & Warén, 1980
References
Nordsieck F. (1968). Die europäischen Meeres-Gehäuseschnecken (Prosobranchia). Vom Eismeer bis Kapverden und Mittelmeer. Gustav Fischer, Stuttgart VIII + 273 pp:
External links
Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Raphitomidae Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77(3): 273-308 Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online