Galeodea

Galeodea is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Cassinae of the family Cassidae.

Fossil record
This genus is known in the fossil record from the Cretaceous period to the Quaternary period (age range: from 99.7 to 0.126 million years ago.). Fossil shells within this genus have been found all over the world.



Species
Species within the genus Galeodea include:
 * † Galeodea aegyptiaca Oppenheim, 1906
 * Galeodea alcocki (E. A. Smith, 1906)
 * † Galeodea allani Finlay and Marwick, 1937
 * †Galeodea apodemetes Marwick, 1934
 * Galeodea bicatenata Sowerby I, 1815
 * Galeodea bituminata (K. Martin, 1933)
 * † Galeodea californica B. L. Clark, 1942
 * † Galeodea depressa Buch, 1831
 * Galeodea echinophora Linnaeus, 1758
 * † Galeodea flemingi Beu & Maxwell, 1990
 * † Galeodea geniculosa Marwick, 1942
 * Galeodea hoaraui Drivas & Jay, 1989
 * Galeodea keyteri (Kilburn, 1975)
 * Galeodea koureos Gardner, 1939
 * Galeodea leucodoma Dall, 1907
 * Galeodea maccamleyi Ponder, 1983
 * † Galeodea megacephala Philippi, 1843
 * † Galeodea modesta (Suter, 1917)
 * † Galeodea petersoni Conrad, 1854
 * † Galeodea planotecta Meyer and Aldrich, 1886
 * Galeodea plauta Beu, 2008
 * Galeodea rugosa (Linnaeus, 1771)
 * † Galeodea senex (Hutton, 1873)
 * † Galeodea sulcata (Hutton, 1873)
 * † Galeodea sutterensis Dickerson, 1916
 * † Galeodea tetratropis Gain, Belliard & Le Renard, 2017
 * Galeodea triganceae Dell, 1953
 * †Galeodea wylliei Marwick, 1931


 * Species brought into synonymy :
 * Galeodea beui Kreipl & Alf, 2002 : synonym of Galeodea alcocki (E.A. Smith, 1906)
 * Galeodea carolimartini Beets, 1943 † : synonym of Galeodea bituminata (K. Martin, 1933)
 * Galeodea echinophorella Habe, 1961 : synonym of Galeodea bituminata (K. Martin, 1933)
 * Galeodea javana (K. Martin, 1879) †: synonym of Eudolium crosseanum (Monterosato, 1869) (Recombination of synonym)
 * Galeodea marginalba Yamamoto & Sakurai, 1977 : synonym of Galeodea bituminata (K. Martin, 1933)
 * Galeodea nipponica (Sakurai & Habe in Habe, 1961) : synonym of Galeodea alcocki (E. A. Smith, 1906)
 * Galeodea noharai Noda, 1980 † : synonym of Galeodea bituminata (K. Martin, 1933)
 * Galeodea postcoronata Sacco, 1890 : synonym of Galeodea echinophora (Linnaeus, 1758)
 * Galeodea susanae Schenck, 1926 †: synonym of Galeodea sutterensis Dickerson, 1916 †
 * Galeodea tyrrhena (Gmelin, 1791) : synonym of Galeodea rugosa (Linnaeus, 1771)