“Odontocymbiola, new name
Adelomelon ‘Dall' Pilsbry and Olsson 1954, Bull, American Paleontology 35: 280, 289 and 306; non Dall 1906.
Type species, Adelomelon ancilla `Solander' Pilsbry and Olsson, monotypic (= Voluta magellanica Gmelin).
Shells medium to large in size, attenuated and with strongly convex whorls. Surface
relatively smooth. Axial zig-zag lines of color rather weak, particularly in old specimens. Radula uniserial, rachidian teeth only, each tooth with three, pointed and fang-like denticles which extend at a right angle from the basal plate and then curve downwards.
(See Plate 82.)
Remarks. Pilsbry and Olsson were in error by figuring these fang-like rachidian teeth under Adelomelon ancilla (Solander). Adelomelon has a rake-like, three-pronged tooth, the denticles being more or less in the same plane. See Remarks under A. ancilla.”
(Clench & Turner, 1964: 170-171)
Odontocymbiola is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Cymbiinae of the family Volutidae.[1]
The radula contain fang-like cusps.[1]
Species within the genus Odontocymbiola include:
Odontocymbiola is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Cymbiinae of the family Volutidae.
