Macteola

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

Macteola
Shells of Macteola interrupta (museum specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Macteola Hedley, 1918
Type species
Purpura (Cronia) anomala Angas, 1877
Species
See text

Description

This name is proposed for a genus of the Mangiliinae, in which the aperture has not acquired armature, and in which the lip is not flexed. Prominent radial ribs are over-ridden by fine beaded spiral threads. The apex is mucronate (i.e. with a small pointed projection, or spine-like ending), with smooth whorls. Characteristic is a colour scheme of a peripheral zone of brown or black or orange, sometimes broken into a series of dots or clashes.^[2]

Species

Species within the genus Macteola include:

• Macteola anomala (Angas, 1877)
• Macteola biconica Stahlschmidt, Poppe & Tagaro, 2015
• Macteola chinoi Stahlschmidt, Fraussen & Kilburn, 2012
• Macteola interrupta (Reeve, 1846)
• Macteola miresculpta (Bozzetti, 2020)
• Macteola theskela (Melvill & Standen, 1895)

Species brought into synonymy

• Macteola bella W.H. Pease, 1860: synonym of Macteola interrupta (L.A. Reeve, 1846)
• Macteola cinctura C. Hedley, 1922: synonym of Macteola segesta cinctura C. Hedley, 1922
• Macteola gemmulata G.P. Deshayes, 1863: synonym of Macteola interrupta (L.A. Reeve, 1846)
• Macteola sandersonae (Bucknill, 1927): synonym of Neoguraleus sandersonae (Bucknill, 1927)
• Macteola segesta (Duclos, 1850): synonym of Macteola interrupta (Reeve, 1846)