Vaughanites

Vaughanites is a genus of m predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pyramimitridae . ^[1]

Vaughanites
Shell of Vaughanites superstes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Mitroidea
Family:	Pyramimitridae
Genus:	Vaughanites Woodring, 1928
Type species
† Vaughanites leptus Woodring, 1928

Species

• † Vaughanites leptus Woodring, 1928
• Vaughanites superstes Kantor, Lozouet, Puillandre & Bouchet, 2014

Description

The shell is medium-sized, very slender, Mitra-like. The protoconch consists of between two and three whorls, about the last one sculptured with coarse axial riblets. The aperture is long and narrow. The siphonal canal is very long and narrow, unemarginate. The anal notch, according to growth lines and ribs, is rather wide and shallow, the apex lying on a prominent spiral some distance from suture. The columella bears two strong Mitra-like folds. The sculpture consists of strong axial and spiral cords, forming an open lattice-work. ^[2]