Stromboidea
Original Diagnosis of the genus Dientomochilus (Varicospira) by Eames, 1952, p. 70:
- "Subfusiform; gutter rising upwards and curving over backwards on the dorsal region of the surface of the shell, not rising up to the apex as in Rimella; ornament consisting of axial ribs with spiral ornament consisting essentially of incised spiral lines in the intervals of the ribs; strong varices developed irregularly on the spire whorls, in addition to the labial varix."
Type species: Strombus cancellatus Lamarck, 1822
The following species represent Varicospira:
- Varicospira bekenuensis Raven, 2021
- Varicospira cancellata (Lamarck, 1816)
- Varicospira crispata (Sowerby, 1842)
- Varicospira decussata (Basterot,1825)
- Varicospira formosana (Yokoyama, 1928)
- Varicospira gerthi (Pannekoek, 1936)
- Varicospira integra (von Koenen, 1889)
- Varicospira javana (Martin, 1879)
- Varicospira kooli Moolenbeek & Dekker, 2007
- Varicospira longirostra (Pannekoek, 1936)
- Varicospira martini (Pannekoek, 1936)
- Varicospira mordax (Martin, 1916)
- Varicospira narica (Vredenburg, 1925)
- Varicospira pakistanicus Eames, 1952
- Varicospira rakhiensis Eames, 1952
- Varicospira rembangensis (Pannekoek, 1936)
- Varicospira reticulata Raven, 2021
- Varicospira semicancellata (Martin, 1899)
- Varicospira spinifera (Martin, 1899)
- Varicospira subrimosa (d'Orbigny, 1852)
- Varicospira tenui-incisus (Eames, 1952)
- Varicospira toyamaensis Tsuda, 1959
- Varicospira tyleri (H. & A. Adams, 1864)
- Varicospira zuschini Harzhauser, 2007
- Varicospira sp
References:
- F.E. Eames (1952) - A contribution to the study of the Eocene in Western Pakistan and Western India. C. The description of the Scaphopoda and Gasteropoda from standard sections in the Rakhi Nala and Zinda Pir areas of the Western Punjab and in the Kohat district. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Vol. 236 No. 631, 1-168