Frenopyxis stierlitzi
F. stierlitzi, photo: Najla Baković, Croatia, 2021

Frenopyxis  Bobrov & Mazei, 2020

Diagnosis: Shell bilaterally symmetrical, broad elliptic, sometimes almost circular, dorsoventrally flattened, yellowish to colorless; aperture is placed slightly eccentrically on a ventral part of a shell at the bottom of a wide funnel (invagination); aperture usually drop-shaped with narrow side oriented toward closest side; sometimes aperture circular. There is an internal thick organic lip surrounding an aperture and continuing in a bridle, which connects an aperture with the internal side of a shell wall and broaden in the place of connection of a bridle and a shell wall.

Type species. Frenopyxis stierlitzi  Bobrov & Mazei, 2020

Frenopyxis stierlitzi
F. stierlitzi, after Bobrov and Mazei, 2020
Ferry Siemensma, created December 30, 2020; last modified January 18, 2025
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