''Aequispirella'' is a
genus
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of
sea snail
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s,
marine gastropod
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This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusk
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s, unassigned in the
superfamily
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Seguenzioidea
Seguenzioidea is a family (biology), superfamily of sea snails, marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Vetigastropoda.Gofas, S. (2010). Seguenzioidea. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database ...
.
[Bouchet, P. (2013). ''Aequispirella'' Finlay, 1924. Retrieved through: ]World Register of Marine Species
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Content
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at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=722813 on 2013-04-14
Species
* †''
Aequispirella bifurcata''
(Maxwell, 1992)
* ''
Aequispirella corula''
(Hutton, 1885)
* ''
Aequispirella enderbyensis''
(Powell, 1931)
* ''
Aequispirella finlayi''
(Powell, 1933)
* † ''
Aequispirella iredalei''
(Finlay, 1924)
* † ''
Aequispirella kaawaensis''
(Laws, 1940)
* † ''
Aequispirella tenuilirata''
(Finlay, 1924)
References
* Kano, Y.; Chikyu, E.; Warén, A. (2009). Morphological, ecological and molecular characterization of the enigmatic planispiral snail genus Adeuomphalus (Vetigastropoda: Seguenzioidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 75(4): 397-418
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