Tenebrincola is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Volutidae. It is a Western Pacific abyssal genus, which is defined by a very thin, smooth shell, a radula of the fulgorarid type, and the presence of an operculum.Bail, P., Chino, M. & Terryn, Y. (2010). The Family Volutidae. The endemic Far East Asian subfamily Fulgorariinae Pilsbry & Olsson, 1954. A revision of the recent species. In: Poppe, G. T. & Groh, K.: A Conchological Iconography. 74 pp., 64 plts. ConchBooks, Hackenheim, . Its phylogenetic relationship with the Asian fulgorarids needs to be clarified.
Species Species within the genus Tenebrincola include:
Tenebrincola cukri (Rokop, 1972)
The species includes two populations: Tenebrincola cukri cukri (Rokop, 1972) - Baja California and Tenebrincola cukri frigida Harasewych & Kantor, 1991 - Aleutian Trench.
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