This genus was formerly placed in subfamily Borsoniinae, family Turridae in Vaught (1989).
The name Taranis is the Latinised name of the Gallic thunder god Taran. It is therefore a masculine name.
Description
The species in this genus are characterized by the absence of a
radula together with the loss or reduction of a number of other features of foregut anatomy (as described by Kantor & Sysoev (1989) ).[2][3]
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