A genus of extinct or rare mollusks, particularly cephalopods, from paleontological classification.
From Greek 'enta-' (within) or possibly a prefix variant plus '-ea' (taxonomic suffix). A specialized paleontological term of uncertain etymological transparency.
Scientific genus names often hide mysterious etymologies, and 'entea' is one of thousands of organism names that specialists know precisely but whose original meaning is lost to time and specialist knowledge.
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