''Archiminolia'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
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
family
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Solariellidae
Solariellidae is a family (biology), family of small sea snails, marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Trochoidea (superfamily), Trochoidea (according to the Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005), taxonomy of ...
, the top snails.
B.A. Marshall (1979) considered ''
Ethaliopsis''
Schepman and ''Archiminolia''
Iredale synonym with ''
Microgaza''
Dall.
Description
The
spire
A spire is a tall, slender, pointed structure on top of a roof of a building or tower, especially at the summit of church steeples. A spire may have a square, circular, or polygonal plan, with a roughly conical or pyramidal shape. Spire ...
is moderately elevated. The
teleoconch
The gastropod shell is part of the body of many gastropods, including snails, a kind of mollusc. The shell is an exoskeleton, which protects from predators, mechanical damage, and dehydration, but also serves for muscle attachment and calcium ...
contains fine spiral cords. The subsutural cord sometimes contains nodules. The open, but not very broad
umbilicus has no callus. The
radula
The radula (; : radulae or radulas) is an anatomical structure used by mollusks for feeding, sometimes compared to a tongue. It is a minutely toothed, chitinous ribbon, which is typically used for scraping or cutting food before the food enters ...
contains a broad latero-marginal plate.
Species
Species within the genus ''Archiminolia'' include:
* ''
Archiminolia diplax''
Marshall, 1999
* ''
Archiminolia episcopalis''
Marshall, 1999
* ''
Archiminolia hurleyi''
(B. A. Marshall, 1979)
* ''
Archiminolia iridescens''
(Habe, 1961)
* ''
Archiminolia katoi''
(Kuroda & Habe in Habe, 1961)
* ''
Archiminolia meridiana''
(Dell, 1953)
* ''
Archiminolia oleata
''Archiminolia oleata'', common name the shining top shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusk in the family (biology), family Solariellidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Archiminolia oleata (Hedley & ...
''
(Hedley & Petterd, 1906)
* ''
Archiminolia olivaceostrigata''
(Schepman, 1908)
* ''
Archiminolia ostreion''
Vilvens, 2009
* ''
Archiminolia regalis''
Marshall, 1999
* ''
Archiminolia strobilos''
Vilvens, 2009
* ''
Archiminolia wanganellica''
Marshall, 1999
* ''
Archiminolia ziczac''
(Kuroda & Habe, 1971)
;Species brought into synonymy:
* ''Archiminolia alabida''
(B. A. Marshall, 1979): synonym of ''
Bathymophila alabida''
(B. A. Marshall, 1979)
* ''Archiminolia dawsoni''
(B. A. Marshall, 1979): synonym of ''
Bathymophila dawsoni''
(B. A. Marshall, 1979) (superseded combination)
* ''Archiminolia diadema''
Marshall, 1999: synonym of ''
Bathymophila diadema'' (
B. A. Marshall, 1999)
* ''Archiminolia fulgens''
(Dall, 1907): synonym of ''
Ilanga fulgens''
(Dall, 1907) (superseded combination)
* ''Archiminolia ptykte''
Vilvens, 2009: synonym of ''
Ilanga ptykte''
(Vilvens, 2009) (original combination)
* ''Archiminolia tenuiseptum''
Marshall, 1999:
synonym of ''
Phragmomphalina tenuiseptum''
(B. A. Marshall, 1999) (original combination)
* * ''Archiminolia zacalles''
(Melvill & Standen, 1903): synonym of ''
Solariella zacalles''
Melvill, 1903
* ''Archiminolia zacaloides''
(Schepman, 1908): synonym of ''
Ilanga zacalloides''
(Schepman, 1908) (
superseded combination and misspelling of species name)
References
* Iredale, T (1929), ''Mollusca from the continental shelf of Eastern Australia,'' No. 2; Records of the Australian Museum v. 17 157–189. pls.38–41
* Cotton, B.C., 1959. ''South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda''. Govt. Printer, Adelaide
* Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F., 1962
1/Dec/1962 ''A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales''. Mem. Aust. Mus., 11:0-0.
* Wilson, B., 1993. ''Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods''. Odyssey Publishing, Kallaroo, WA
External links
Williams, S.T., Kano, Y., Warén, A. & Herbert, D.G. (2020). Marrying molecules and morphology: first steps towards a reevaluation of solariellid genera (Gastropoda: Trochoidea) in the light of molecular phylogenetic studies. Journal of Molluscan Studies 86 (1): 1–26
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Solariellidae
Gastropod genera