Fasciolariinae Gray, 1853

Harzhauser, Mathias, Landau, Bernard M. & Vermeij, Geerat J., 2024, The Dolicholatiridae and Fasciolariidae (Gastropoda, Buccinoidea) of the Miocene Paratethys Sea, Zootaxa 5470 (1), pp. 1-92 : 8

Subfamily Fasciolariinae Gray, 1853

Diagnosis. “ Shell fusiform, medium-sized to extremely large; outer lip usually medially convex, without adapical sinus; outer-lip edge usually with paired crenulations; inner lip adherent, abapically bearing two columellar folds and a more prominent fold at entrance of siphonal canal; adaxial margin of siphonal canal often erect; siphonal process parallel to axis of coiling.” ( Snyder et al. 2012: 33).

Genus Aurantilaria Snyder, Vermeij & Lyons, 2012

Type species. Fasciolaria aurantiaca Lamarck, 1816 ; original designation by Snyder et al. (2012: 44). Present-day , northeastern Brazil to Grenadines, Lesser Antilles .

Diagnosis. “ Shell medium-sized to large for subfamily, maximum length of type and largest species 211 mm; shell broadly fusiform, with relatively high spire; when fully expressed, sculpture of up to five rows of ten or more abaxially pointing nodes; other spiral sculpture of prominent cords; outer lip edge weakly convex and angled at periphery, with paired black crenulations, the termini of paired black lines on the spire and body whorl; internal lirae on adaxial side of outer lip mostly smooth, but some discontinuous toward anterior; junction of outer lip with penultimate whorl often without notch; parietal ridge prominent, rounded; entrance fold to siphonal canal prominent, rounded, more strongly expressed than the two columellar folds; folds abapical to entrance fold absent.” ( Snyder et al. 2012: 45).