''Balanetta'' is a
genus
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of small, often colorful,
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
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mollusc
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s in the
taxonomic
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family
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of the margin shells (
Marginellidae
Marginellidae, or the margin shells, are a taxonomic family of small, often colorful, sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Neogastropoda.
Taxonomy
The higher classification of the family Marginellidae has long been in a state o ...
).
[WoRMS (2010). Balanetta Jousseaume, 1875. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=465260 on 2010-12-04]
Species
* ''
Balanetta amydrozona''
(Melvill, 1906)
* ''
Balanetta baylii''
Jousseaume, 1875
* ''
Balanetta cylichnella''
(May, 1917)
* ''
Balanetta pisum''
(Reeve, 1865)
* ''
Balanetta triptycta''
Le Renard & van Nieulande, 1985
;Species brought into synonymy :
* ''Balanetta baylei''
Jousseaume, 1875: synonym of ''Balanetta baylii''
Jousseaume, 1875 (alternative original spelling; spelling baylii selected by First Reviser choice by Tomlin (1917))
* ''Balanetta decaryi''
Bavay, 1920: synonym of ''
Ovaginella decaryi'' (Bavay, 1920)
* ''Balanetta ovulum''
(G.B. Sowerby, 1846): synonym of ''
Ovaginella ovulum'' (G.B. Sowerby, 1846)
Description
Distribution
References
* Jousseaume, F., 1875. ''Coquilles de la famille des marginelles'', Monographie. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie Pure et Appliquée 3(3): 164-278
* Cossignani T. (2006). ''Marginellidae & Cystiscidae of the World''. L'Informatore Piceno. 408pp.
Marginellidae
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