Cookia

Cookia is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.

Cookia
Cookia sulcata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Turbinidae
Genus:	Cookia Lesson, 1832[1]
Type species
Cookia novaezelandiae Lesson, 1832

Cookia is sometimes treated as a subgenus of the genus Bolma.

The genus was named after Captain James Cook.

Species

Species within the genus Cookia include:

• †Cookia kawauensis Powell, 1938
• Cookia sulcata (Lightfoot, 1786)

Species brought into synonymy

• Cookia novaezelandiae Lesson, 1832: synonym of Cookia sulcata (Lightfoot, 1786)