Enaeta

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

Enaeta
Enaeta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Volutidae
Subfamily:	Volutinae
Genus:	Enaeta H. & A. Adams, 1853
Synonyms[1]
Lyria (Enaeta) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853

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.^[1]

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)^[2]
• Enaeta cumingii (Broderip, 1832)^[3]
• Enaeta cylleniformis (Sowerby I, 1844)^[4]
• Enaeta guildingii (Sowerby I, 1844)^[5]
• Enaeta leonardhilli Petuch, 1982^[6]
• Enaeta reevei (Dall, 1907)^[7]