Ionthoglossa, Vinola-Lopez & Bouchet, 2020

Vinola-Lopez, Lazaro W. & Bouchet, Philippe, 2020, The current status of Pogonodon Cope, 1880 (Carnivora: Nimravidae) and a substitution name for its junior homonym Pogonodon Bouchet, 1997 (Caenogastropoda: Triphoridae), Zootaxa 4809 (2), pp. 390-392 : 391

Genus Ionthoglossa nom. nov.

Pogonodon Bouchet, 1997 (preoccupied): 210; Scuderi & Criscione 2011: 1, 44; Vazzana 2010: 69; Oliverio 2008: 259; Fernandez 1996: 169.

Etymology. From the Greek words ionthas, long-haired, and glossa, tongue, with reference to the long, hair-like cusps on the radula. The name is feminine in gender.

Diagnosis. Triphoridae with protoconch I bearing hemispheric granules; protoconch II with two spiral keels and axial ribs together forming a large-meshed reticulation; teleoconch with three spiral rows of granules, of which row no. 2 appears last; operculum multispiral; radula with rachidian and lateral teeth bearing strong outer and inner cusps on both sides of a shorter central cusp; marginal teeth with two strong cusps and two very long, slender cusps in the middle.

Type species. Cosmotriphora pseudocanarica Bouchet, 1985 , by typification of the replaced name.

Type locality. Off Oran, Algeria .

Distribution. Mediterranean: Ionian Sea. Italy: Scilla; Secca del Bagno, Lipari Island; Porto Cesareo; Acitrezza, Catania - Alboran Sea: Ceuta. NE Atlantic: Gorringe Bank off Portugal.