Stromboidea

• Aporrhaidae
  • Graciliala Sohl, 1960

Type species of Graciliala is Anchura (Drepanochilus) calcaris Wade, 1926.

Original Description of Graciliala by Sohl, 1960:

• "Shell of medium size; spire high, turriculate; whorls generally 6-8; sides well-rounded ornamented by the fine spiral threads and numerous curved strong tranverse ribs that die out below periphery; aperture elongate and lenticular, acute posteriorly and drawn out to a short, narrow, and tapering spur, grooved interiorly and with a corresponding external ridge that dries out on the body; inner lip with moderately heavy well-defined callus over the entire length."

Graciliala species are

• Graciliala calcaris (Wade, 1926)
• Graciliala campbelli Stephenson, 1941
• Graciliala cooki Stephenson, 1941
• Graciliala decemlirata (Conrad, 1858)
• Graciliala johnsoni (Stephenson, 1923)
• Graciliala latealata (Riedel, 1932)
• Graciliala quaasi Kiel & Bandel, 2002
• Graciliala simplex (d'Orbigny, 1843)
• Graciliala solitaria (Whitfield, 1892)
• Graciliala sp. Garvie, 2013

might be a Graciliala

• Rostellaria costata Sowerby, 1832

Etymology:

• from Latin gracilis = slender and ala = wing

References

• C.L. Garvie, 2013. Additions to the Molluscan Macrofauna of the Reklaw Formation (Eocene: lower Claibornian) and Two New Taxa from the middle Claibornian in Texas. Bulletins of American paleontology no. 385, p. 131–161