Borsonia is a genus

Genus

In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 of sea snail

Sea snail

Sea snail is a common name for those snails that normally live in saltwater, marine gastropod molluscs....

s, marine

Marine (ocean)

Marine is an umbrella term. As an adjective it is usually applicable to things relating to the sea or ocean, such as marine biology, marine ecology and marine geology...

 gastropod mollusks in the family

Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 Borsoniidae

Borsoniidae

Borsoniidae is a monophyletic family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.In 2011, Bouchet, Kantor et al...

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Description

The fusiform shell has an elevated spire

Spire (mollusc)

A spire is a descriptive term for part of the coiled shell of mollusks. The word is a convenient aid in describing shells, but it does not refer to a very precise part of shell anatomy: the spire consists of all of the whorls except for the body whorl...

 and a well-marked siphonal canal

Siphonal canal

Some sea marine gastropods have a soft tubular anterior extension of the mantle called a siphon through which water is drawn into the mantle cavity and over the gill and which serves as a chemoreceptor to locate food. In many carnivorous snails, where the siphon is particularly long, the structure...

. The columella has one or two strong plications. The anal sinus of the outer lip

Lip (gastropod)

In the shell of a gastropod mollusk , the margin of the aperture is called the lip or the peristome. In other words, this is a term used to describe part of gastropod shell anatomy....

 is not deep There is an opening in the infrasutural depression of the body whorl

Body whorl

Body whorl is part of the morphology of a coiled gastropod mollusk.- In gastropods :In gastropods, the body whorl, or last whorl, is the most recently-formed and largest whorl of a spiral or helical shell, terminating in the aperture...

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Species

Species within the genus Borsonia include:

• Borsonia armata Boettger, 1895
• Borsonia brasiliana Tippett, 1983
• Borsonia ceroplasta (Watson, 1881)
• Borsonia epigona Martens, 1901
• Borsonia hirondelleae (Dautzenberg, 1891)
• Borsonia jaffa Cotton, 1947
• Borsonia jaya Sysoev, 1997
• Borsonia ochracea Thiele, 1925
• Borsonia saccoi Dall, 1908
• Borsonia silicea (Watson, 1881)
• Borsonia smithi Schepman, 1913
• Borsonia symbiophora Sysoev, 1996
• Borsonia syngenes (Watson, 1881)
• Borsonia timorensis (Schepman, 1913)

Species brought into synonymy:

• Borsonia agassizii Dall, 1908 : synonym of Borsonella agassizii
  Borsonella agassizii
  Borsonella agassizii is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.-Distribution:This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean along the Gulf of Panama and the Galapagos Islands....
  
  (Dall, 1908)
• Borsonia bifasciata Pease, 1860 : synonym of Kermia bifasciata
  Kermia bifasciata
  Kermia bifasciata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae....
  
  (Pease, 1860)
• Borsonia coronadoi Dall, 1908: synonym of [[Borsonella coronadoi]] (Dall, 1908)
• Borsonia crassicostata Pease, 1860: synonym of Lienardia crassicostata (Pease, 1860)
• Borsonia diegensis Dall, 1908 : synonym of Borsonella diegensis
  Borsonella diegensis
  Borsonella diegensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae....
  
  (Dall, 1908)
• Borsonia lutea Pease, 1860 : synonym of Kermia lutea
  Kermia lutea
  Kermia lutea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae....
  
  (Pease, 1860)
• Borsonia nebulosa Pease, 1860 : synonym of Pseudodaphnella nebulosa
  Pseudodaphnella nebulosa
  Pseudodaphnella nebulosa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae....
  
  (Pease, 1860)
• Borsonia rouaultii Dall, 1889 : synonym of Cordieria rouaultii (Dall, 1889)