Gladiobela, Criscione & Hallan & Puillandre & Fedosov, 2021

Criscione, Francesco, Hallan, Anders, Puillandre, Nicolas & Fedosov, Alexander, 2021, Where the snails have no name: a molecular phylogeny of Raphitomidae (Neogastropoda: Conoidea) uncovers vast unexplored diversity in the deep seas of temperate southern and eastern Australia, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 191, pp. 961-1000 : 987

GLADIOBELA GEN. NOV.

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Type species: Gladiobela angulata . OD, herein.

Etymology: The name is composed of the Latin noun gladius, sword, for the long blade of its hypodermic tooth, and the Greek βέλος, arrow, from the genus name Bela Leach, 1847 , indicating similarity to Gymnobela . The gender is feminine

Diagnosis

Shell ( Fig. 4A) fusiform-biconical, semitranslucent. Protoconch multispiral, lower whorl portion diagonally cancellate, upper portion with arcuate sculpture only. Teleoconch with broad whorls with shoulder situated at mid-height of whorl. Anal sinus wide, U-shaped. Animal with long, cylindrical tentacles; eyes small. Radula ( Fig. 6B) of hypodermic type, awl-shaped, with long adapical opening; dorsal blade extremely long; base broad, angular.