{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}} {{Automatic taxobox | display_parents = 3 | image = Genota papalis 001.jpg | image_caption = Apertural view of a shell of ''Genota papalis'' | fossil_range = | taxon = Genota | authority = H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 | type_species = ''Murex mitriformis'' | type_species_authority = Wood W., 1828 | synonyms_ref = <ref name="WoRMS" /> | synonyms = * ''Genotia'' <small>P. Fischer, 1883</small> (Invalid: unjustified emendation of Genota) * ''Genotia (Genotia)'' <small>P. Fischer, 1883</small> * ''Pleurotoma (Genota)'' <small>H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853</small> * ''Turris (Genota)'' <small>H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853</small> (original rank as subgenus) }}

'''''Genota''''' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Borsoniidae.<ref name="WoRMS">Bouchet, P. (2015). Genota H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=225379 on 2016-03-09</ref>

==Description== The shell is narrowly obconic and cancellated. The body whorl gradually tapers to a but slightly developed siphonal canal. The sinus of the lip is wide and shallow. The aperture is long and narrow with subparallel margins. The operculum is unguiculate.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/manualconch06tryorich G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences] (p. 154)</ref>

==Species== Species within the genus ''Genota'' include: * † ''Genota bonnanii'' <small>Bellardi, 1877</small> * † ''Genota craverii'' <small>Bellardi, 1877</small> * † ''Genota domenechae'' <small>Vera-Peláez & Lozano-Francisco, 2001</small> * † ''Genota gonzalesi'' <small>Shuto, 1969</small> * ''Genota joleaudi'' <small>Stchepinsky, 1936</small> <ref>[https://science.mnhn.fr/institution/mnhn/collection/f/item/a25164?listIndex=4&listCount=7 MNHN, Paris: Genota joleaudi]</ref> * † ''Genota jogjacartensis'' <small>K. Martin, 1914</small> * † ''Genota maximei'' <small>Ceulemans, Van Dingenen & Landau, 2018</small> * † ''Genota mayeri'' <small>Bellardi, 1877</small> * ''Genota mitriformis'' <small>(Wood W., 1828)</small> * ''Genota nicklesi'' <small>Knudsen, 1952</small><ref name="Knudsen1952">{{cite journal |last1=Knudsen |first1=J. |title=Marine prosobranchs of tropical West Africa collected by the Atlantide Expedition, 1945–46. |journal=' Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening i Kjobenhavn |date=1952 |volume=114 |pages=129–185, 1 fig. 12pl}}</ref> * ''Genota papalis'' <small>(Reeve, 1843)</small> * † ''Genota proavia'' <small>Bellardi, 1877</small> * † ''Genota pseudoelisae'' <small>Landau, Harzhauser, İslamoğlu & C. M. Silva, 2013</small> * † ''Genota ramosa'' <small>(Basterot, 1825)</small> * † ''Genota valeriae'' <small>(Hoernes & Auinger, 1891)</small>

;Species brought into synonymy: * † ''Genota lusitaniae'' <small>Vera-Peláez & Lozano-Francisco, 2001</small>: synonym of † ''Genota bonnanii'' <small>Bellardi, 1877</small> (junior subjective synonym) * ''Genota marchadi'' [sic] : synonym of ''Genota nicklesi'' Knudsen, 1952 * ''Genota marchandi'' <small>Pin, 1996</small> : synonym of ''Genota nicklesi'' <small>Knudsen, 1952</small> * ''Genota mitraeformis'' <small>(Kiener, 1839)</small> : synonym of ''Genota mitriformis'' <small>(Wood W., 1828)</small> * ''Genota nigeriensis'' <small>Vera-Peláez, 2004</small> : synonym of ''Genota nicklesi'' <small>Knudsen, 1952</small> * ''Genota vafra'' <small>Sykes, 1905</small> : synonym of ''Genota mitriformis'' <small>(Wood W., 1828)</small>

==References== {{Reflist}} * Fontannes (F.), 1880 - Les Invertébrés du bassin tertiaire du Sud-Est de la France. Les Mollusques pliocènes de la vallée du Rhone et du Roussillon. Tome 1er: Gastéropodes des formations marines et saumatres. livraison 3, p.&nbsp;169-258 * Ryall P., Horro J. & Rolán E. 2013. ''A revision of the genus Genota H. & A. Adams, 1853 (Gastropoda: Conoidea: Borsonidae) from West Africa''. Iberus, 31(2): 1-17.

==External links== {{Commons category}} * [http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12862913 Gray, J. E. (1847). A list of the genera of recent Mollusca, their synonyma and types. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1847) 15: 129-219] * [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/23923 Adams H. & Adams A. (1853-1858). The genera of recent Mollusca; arranged according to their organization. London, van Voorst.] * [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36853071 Cossmann, M. (1896). ''Essais de paléoconchologie comparée. Deuxième livraison''. Paris, The author and Comptoir Géologique. 179 pp., 8 pls.] * {{cite journal | last1 = Tucker | first1 = J.K. | year = 2004 | title = Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda) | url = http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2004f/z00682f.pdf | journal = Zootaxa | volume = 682 | pages = 1–1295 | doi = 10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1 }} * [https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mollus/eyr017 Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). ''A new operational classification of the Conoidea''. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77, 273-308]

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