Scientific Classification
| Kingdom: Animalia |
| Phylum: Mollusca |
| Class: Gastropoda |
| Order: Littorinimorpha |
| Family: Calyptraeidae |
| Genus: Cheilea |
| Species: Cheilea uncinata (Reeve, 1859) |
Information
Geological Range
Paleogeographic Distribution
Stratigraphic Occurrences
| Chipola Formation |
Remarks
Common name: n/a
Synonymy: n/a
Type specimen, locality, and stratum: n/a
Other voucher specimens: n/a
Descriptions:
Original Description (from Reeve, 1859, p. 122):
“THE HOOKED CALYPTRAEA. Shell depressly cap-shaped, thin, slightly wrinkled, radiately densely very minutely striated, top posterior, sharply depressly hooked; transparent-white, hyaline; internal appendage oblique, prominent.
Hab. Island of St. Thomas, West Indies.
A hyaline, sharply-hooked, rather depressly cap-shaped shell, from the West Indies, composed of the same minute thread-rayed tissue as the Philippine Island species.”
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Measurements: n/a
Other remarks:
For information on the modern distribution of the species, see Malacolog and WoRMS.
References: n/a
Online resources: n/a
Page history:
Some of the content on this page was originally published on the Neogene Atlas of Ancient Life on January 31, 2015. It was developed by Jonathan R. Hendricks and colleagues and migrated here in 2026.
This page was last modified on October 28, 2026 by Jonathan R. Hendricks.
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