''Demissa'' is a
genus
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of
snail
A snail is a shelled gastropod. The name is most often applied to land snails, terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. However, the common name ''snail'' is also used for most of the members of the molluscan class Gas ...
s,
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
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s in the
family
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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 ...
, the margin snails.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Demissa Boyer, 2016. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=867004 on 2020-10-18]
Species
* ''
Demissa alisonae''
Boyer, 2016
* ''
Demissa angelozzii''
Cossignani & Lorenz, 2018
* ''
Demissa benthedii''
Boyer, 2016
* ''
Demissa borbonica''
Boyer, 2016
* ''
Demissa carolinensis''
Boyer, 2016
* ''
Demissa cecalupoi''
(Cossignani, 2005)
* ''
Demissa deformis''
(G. Nevill & H. Nevill, 1874)
* ''
Demissa fusulina''
Boyer, 2016
* ''
Demissa lorenzi''
Boyer, 2016
* ''
Demissa maccleeryi''
Boyer, 2016
* ''
Demissa maldiviensis''
Boyer, 2016
* ''
Demissa masirana''
Boyer, 2016
* ''
Demissa meridionalis''
Boyer, 2016
* ''
Demissa nevilli''
(Jousseaume, 1875)
* ''
Demissa philippinarum''
Boyer, 2016
* ''
Demissa poppei''
Boyer, 2016
* ''
Demissa procrita''
(Kilburn, 1977)
* ''
Demissa pupa''
Boyer, 2018
* ''
Demissa santoensis''
Boyer, 2016
* ''
Demissa volunta''
(Laseron, 1957)
* ''
Demissa zanzibarica''
Boyer, 2016
References
* Jousseaume, F., 1875. Coquilles de la famille des marginelles, Monographie. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie Pure et Appliquée 3(3): 164-278; 429-435
* Fischer-Piette, E. & Beigbeder, J., 1944. Catalogue des types de gastéropodes marins conservés au laboratoire de Malacologie. VI. Mitridae, Marginellidae, Olividae, Columbellidae et Conidae. Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 16(1): 448-462, sér. 2° série
* Boyer F. (2016). Etude d'un nouveau genre de Marginellidae (Mollusca : Neogastropoda) de l'Indo-Pacifique. Xenophora Taxonomy. 10: 31-48
Marginellidae
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