Callipara

Callipara
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Volutoidea
Family:	Volutidae
Subfamily:	Volutinae
Genus:	Callipara; Gray, 1847
Type species
	Voluta bullata; Swainson, 1829
Synonyms
	Callipara (Callipara) Gray, 1847 accepted, alternate representation; Callipara (Canalilyria) Bail & Poppe, 2001 accepted, alternate representation; Callipara (Simililyria) Bail & Poppe, 2001 accepted, alternate representation; Callipara (Festilyria) Pilsbry & Olsson, 1954 accepted, alternate representation; Festilyria Pilsbry & Olsson, 1954; Voluta (Callipara);

Callipara is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Volutidae.^[1]

Species[]

Species within the genus Callipara include:

Callipara africana (Reeve, 1856)
Veldsman, 2012
Callipara aphrodite (Bondarev, 1999)^[2]
Callipara bullatiana (Weaver & du Pont, 1967)^[3]
Callipara duponti (Weaver, 1968)
Callipara festiva (Lamarck, 1811)
Callipara kurodai (Kawamura, 1964)^[4]
Callipara ponsonbyi (Smith, 1901)
Callipara queketti (Smith, 1901)^[5]
Veldsman, 2012
Veldsman, 2012

Species brought into synonymy

Subgenus Callipara (Festilyria) Pilsbry & Olsson, 1954 accepted as Festilyria Pilsbry & Olsson, 1954

Description[]

Some have a radula with vestigial lateral teeth. Teleoconch whorls are shouldered and nodulose, with the three early whorls axially ribbed. They often have with a black blotch near the siphonal canal and the upper part of the aperture. All species have a shoulder, except in Callipara bullatiana where the well-defined shoulder changes at a slight angle.^[1]

Distribution[]

The snails of this genus are found in the Indian Ocean off East Africa.

References[]

^ ^a ^b ^c Callipara Gray, 1847. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 June 2012.
^ Callipara aphrodite (Bondarev, 1999). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
^ Callipara bullatiana (Weaver & du Pont, 1967). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
^ Callipara kurodai (Kawamura, 1964). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
^ Callipara queketti (Smith, 1901). 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. (updated October 2008 for WoRMS)

External links[]

Gray, J. E. (1847). A list of the genera of recent Mollusca, their synonyma and types. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 15: 129-219

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[WoRMS-1] Callipara Gray, 1847. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 June 2012.

[2] Callipara aphrodite (Bondarev, 1999). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.

[3] Callipara bullatiana (Weaver & du Pont, 1967). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.

[4] Callipara kurodai (Kawamura, 1964). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.

[5] Callipara queketti (Smith, 1901). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.

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