New and unusual deep-water Conoidea revised with shell, radula and DNA characters

Abstract

In the course of preparation of a new molecular phylogeny of Conoidea based on exon-capture some new species and species with notable morphology were revealed. The taxonomy of these species is discussed and the radula of most of them illustrated for the first time. New genera are described: gen. nov. (Cochlespiridae), type species Li et Li, 2008; gen. nov. (Clavatulidae), type species Tesch, 1915. New species described: gen. et sp. nov., sp. nov. (both Cochlespiridae), gen. et sp. nov. (Clavatulidae), sp. nov., sp. nov. (both Horaiclavidae), sp. nov., sp. nov. (Turridae), sp. nov. (Borsoniidae). Hedley, 1918 is reallocated from Pseudomelatomidae to Horaiclavidae. The radulae of (Shuto, 1961) (Turridae), (Dall, 1881), and (Powell, 1969) comb. nov. are illustrated for the first time.</jats:p