''Pseudostomatella'' is a
genus
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of small
sea snail
Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...
s,
marine gastropod
Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusk
Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...
s in the subfamily
Stomatellinae
Stomatellinae is a subfamily of small sea snails with a brilliantly nacreous interior of the shell, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Trochidae, the top snails.Gofas, S. (2012). Stomatellinae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Spe ...
of the
family
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Trochidae
The Trochidae, common name top-snails or top-shells, are a family of various sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subclass Vetigastropoda. This family is commonly known as the top-snails because in many species the shell resembles ...
, the top snails.
Distribution
This marine genus has a wide distribution. The species occur in the Central and East Indian Ocean, Indo-Malaysia and off Australia
Species
Species within the genus ''Pseudostomatella'' include:
* ''
Pseudostomatella baconi''
(Adams, A. in Adams, H.G. & A. Adams, 1854)
* ''
Pseudostomatella clathratula''
(Adams, A. in Adams, H.G. & A. Adams, 1854)
* ''
Pseudostomatella coccinea''
(A. Adams, 1850)
** forma : ''Pseudostomatella coccinea flammulata'' (f)
Pilsbry, H.A., 1920
* ''
Pseudostomatella cycloradiata''
Usticke, 1959
* ''
Pseudostomatella decolorata''
(Gould, A.A., 1848)
* ''
Pseudostomatella erythrocoma
''Pseudostomatella erythrocoma'' is a species of very small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.
Distribution
This species occurs in the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea and off the Les ...
''
(Dall, 1889)
* ''
Pseudostomatella martini''
Poppe, Tagaro & Dekker, 2006
* ''
Pseudostomatella orbiculata''
(A. Adams, 1850)
* ''
Pseudostomatella papyracea
''Pseudostomatella papyracea'', common name the papery stomatella, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.Bouchet, P. (2012). ''Pseudostomatella papyracea'' (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed through: ...
''
(Gmelin, J.F., 1791)
* ''
Pseudostomatella selecta''
(A. Adams, 1855)
;Species brought into synonymy:
* ''Pseudostomatella maculata''
(Quoy & Gaimard, 1834): synonym of ''
Granata maculata
''Granata maculata'' is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Chilodontaidae.
Description
The small, oval shell is inflated. It has a rounded prominent spire containing 4 whorls. It is very delicately striate lo ...
''
(Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
* ''Pseudostomatella rubra'' ''(Lamarck, 1822)'':
synonym of ''
Stomatolina rubra
''Stomatolina rubra'', common name the red stomatolina, is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.
Description
The size of the shell varies between 8 mm and 18 mm. The depresse ...
'' (Lamarck, 1822)
;Taxa inquirenda:
* ''Pseudostomatella decorata''
(A. Adams, 1855)
* ''Pseudostomatella monilifera''
(A. Adams, 1850)
* ''Pseudostomatella splendidula''
(A. Adams, 1854)
References
* Vaught, K.C. (1989). ''A classification of the living Mollusca''. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). . XII, 195 pp.
* Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. (2001) ''Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-Bearing Mollusca of Japan. Gastropoda Bivalvia Polyplacophora Scaphopoda Type Figures''. Elle Scientific Publications, Yao, Japan, 208 pp.
External links
Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online.
Trochidae
Gastropod genera
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