Genus Granuliterebra Oyama, 1961
(Fig. 10A)
Type species: Terebra bathyrhaphe E.A. Smith, 1875; OD.
Diagnosis: Shell of small size (<36 mm), slender, sculptured by strong ribs, bearing nodules on subsutural band and on bottom of ribs, giving concave outline to whorls. Protoconch of 2.5–4 whorls.
Distribution: Indian and western Pacific Oceans.
Remarks: Species in the genus Pellifronia are similar in having a concave whorl outline, but have notably weaker nodules and a less clearly defined subsutural band. Species with similar nodulose sculpture exist in the genus Neoterebra, but generally these have a wider apical angle or a very shiny texture. Duplicaria tricincta has similar sculpture, but including two raised, thin, spiral cords.
Included species:
Granuliterebra bathyrhaphe (E. A. Smith, 1875) 4;
G. constricta (Thiele, 1925) 4;
G. eddunhami Terryn & Holford, 20084;
G. oliverai Terryn & Holford, 20084;
G. palawanensis (Aubry & Picardal, 2011) 4;
G. persica (E. A. Smith, 1877) 4.