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Enaeta
Enaeta
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Volutidae
Subfamily:	Volutinae
Genus:	Enaeta H. & A. Adams, 1853
Synonyms
Lyria (Enaeta) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853

Enaeta is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Volutidae.

Description

The small shell has an ovate to fusiform shape. The protoconch is small and smooth. The teleoconch is covered with axial ribs. There is a conspicuous tooth-like blunt nodule on the midpoint of the outer lip. The radula is uniserial with an interlocking central cusp.

Distribution

This species occurs from the Caribbean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean south to Brazil and Fernando de Noronha Islands.

Species

Species within the genus Enaeta include:

• Enaeta barnesii (Gray, 1825)
• Enaeta cumingii (Broderip, 1832)
• Enaeta cylleniformis (Sowerby I, 1844)
• Enaeta guildingii (Sowerby I, 1844)
• Enaeta leonardhilli Petuch, 1982
• Enaeta reevei (Dall, 1907)

References

1. ^ Enaeta H. & A. Adams, 1853. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 31 August 2012.
2. Enaeta barnesii (Gray, 1825). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
3. Enaeta cumingii (Broderip, 1832). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
4. Enaeta cylleniformis (Sowerby I, 1844). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
5. Enaeta guildingii (Sowerby I, 1844). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
6. Enaeta leonardhilli Petuch, 1982. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
7. Enaeta reevei (Dall, 1907). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.

• Bail, P & Poppe, G. T. 2001. A conchological iconography: a taxonomic introduction of the recent Volutidae. Hackenheim-Conchbook, 30 pp, 5 pl

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