Stromboidea

• Aporrhaidae
  • Goniocheila Gabb, 1868

Original Description of Goniocheila by Gabb, 1868:

• "Shell resembling the true Aporrhais in general form; aperture with a short posterior canal closely appressed to the spire; anterior canal short and incurved; outer lip biangular, the upper angle produced into a more or less prolonged, digitate process, the lower not produced, but having on its lower face a faint groove; inner lip encrusted."

Type species: Alipes liratus (Conrad) (= Chenopus liratus Conrad, 1848), by subsequent designation of Cossmann, 1904.

Species of Goniocheila are:

• Goniocheila castorensis (Whitfield, 1877)
• Goniocheila lirata (Conrad, 1848)
• Goniocheila menthafontis (MacNeil, 1984)
• Goniocheila orientalis (Abbass, 1967)
• Goniocheila wilsoni Saul & Petit, 2001

Synonymy:

• Alipes Conrad, 1865, p. 31 (junior homonym of Alipes Imhoff, 1854, Myriopoda)
• Goniochila Fischer, 1884
• Gonocheila Cossmann, 1904