''Cataegis'' is a
genus
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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
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This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusk
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s in the
family
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Cataegidae
Cataegidae is a family of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Seguenzioidea.Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2012). ''Cataegidae''. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p ...
.
Species
Species within the genus ''Cataegis'' include:
*''
Cataegis celebesensis''
McLean & Quinn, 1987
* ''
Cataegis finkli''
(Petuch, 1987)
* † ''
Cataegis godineauensis'' Van Winkle, 1919
[Kiel S. & Hansen B. T. (2015). "Cenozoic Methane-Seep Faunas of the Caribbean Region". ''PLoS ONE'' 10(10): e0140788. .]
* ''
Cataegis leucogranulatus''
(Fu & Sun, 2006)
* † ''
Cataegis nakagawensis''
Kaim, R. G. Jenkins & Hikida, 2009
* ''
Cataegis pleres''
Vilvens, 2016
* ''
Cataegis stroggile''
Vilvens, 2016
* ''
Cataegis tallorbioides''
Vilvens, 2016
;Species brought into synonymy:
* ''
Cataegis meroglypta''
McLean & Quinn, 1987:
synonym of ''
Kanoia meroglypta''
(McLean & Quinn, 1987) (original combination)
* ''Cataegis toreuta''
McLean & Quinn, 1987: synonym of ''
Cataegis finkli''
(Petuch, 1987)
See also
*
Terrestrial molluscs
Terrestrial molluscs or land molluscs (mollusks) are an ecology, ecological group that includes all molluscs that live on land in contrast to Freshwater mollusc, freshwater and Sea snail, marine molluscs. They probably first occurred in the Carbo ...
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Land snail
A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have gastropod shell, shel ...
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Land slug
Slug, or land slug, is a common name for any apparently shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusc. The word ''slug'' is also often used as part of the common name of any gastropod mollusc that has no shell, a very reduced shell, or only a sma ...
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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 ...
*
Sea slug
Sea slug is a common name for some Marine biology, marine invertebrates with varying levels of resemblance to terrestrial Slug, slugs. Most creatures known as sea slugs are gastropods, i.e. they are Sea snail, sea snails (marine gastropod moll ...
References
* McLean J.H. & Quinn J.F. (1987). ''Cataegis, new genus of three new species from the continental slope (Trochidae: Cataeginae New subfamily)''. The Nautilus. 101(3): 111-116.
* Warén A. & Bouchet P. (1993) ''New records, species, genera, and a new family of gastropods from hydrothermal vents and hydrocarbon seeps.'' Zoologica Scripta 22: 1-90.
Cataegidae
Gastropod genera
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