''Ethminolia'' is a

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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 ...

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 subfamily Umboniinae of the

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Trochidae The Trochidae, common name top-snails or top-shells, are a family of various sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subclass Vetigastropoda. This family is commonly known as the top-snails because in many species the shell resembles ...

, the top snails.

Distribution

This marine genus occurs in the

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, the

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and off

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(New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia) and

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Species

Species within the genus ''Ethminolia'' include: * ''

Ethminolia akuana ''Ethminolia akuana'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails. Description The size of the shell attains . Distribution This marine species occurs off Easter Island Easter Island ( ...

'' Raines, 2007 * ''

Ethminolia degregorii ''Ethminolia degregorii'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.Bouchet, P. (2012). ''Ethminolia degregorii'' (Caramagna, 1888). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http: ...

'' (Caramagna, 1888) * ''

Ethminolia doriae ''Ethminolia doriae'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails. Description The height of the shell attains 6½ mm, its diameter 6 mm. The solid, perforate shell has a conoidal shape. Th ...

'' (Caramagna, 1888) * '' Ethminolia durbanensis'' (Kilburn, 1977) * '' Ethminolia elveri'' Cotton & Godfrey, 1938 * '' Ethminolia eudeli'' (Deshayes, 1863) * ''

Ethminolia glaphyrella ''Ethminolia glaphyrella'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.Bouchet, P. (2012). ''Ethminolia glaphyrella'' (Melvill & Standen, 1895). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Specie ...

'' (Melvill & Standen, 1895) * '' Ethminolia gravieri'' (Lamy, 1909) * ''

Ethminolia hemprichii ''Ethminolia hemprichii'' is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails. In 2008 this species was placed in the genus ''Ethminolia'' by Rusmore-Villaume. Description The hei ...

'' Issel, 1869 * ''

Ethminolia hornungi ''Ethminolia hornungi'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails. Description Distribution This species occurs in the Red Sea The Red Sea is a sea inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying be ...

'' (Bisacchi, 1931) * '' Ethminolia impressa'' (G. Nevill & H. Nevill, 1869) * ''

Ethminolia iridifulgens ''Ethminolia iridifulgens'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails. Description The height of the shell attains 4 mm, its diameter 6 mm. The umbilicate shell has a conical shape. ...

'' (Melvill, 1910) * ''

Ethminolia nektonica ''Ethminolia nektonica'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails. Description The size of the shell varies between 3 mm and 5.5 mm. Distribution This marine species occurs off th ...

'' (Okutani, 1961) * '' Ethminolia ornatissima'' (Schepman, 1908) * ''

Ethminolia probabilis ''Ethminolia probabilis'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails. It is a benthic filter-feeder. Description The shell has a maximum width of and a maximum lenght of . The whorls are angle ...

'' Iredale, 1924 * '' Ethminolia sculpta'' (G.B. Sowerby, 1897) * ''Ethminolia stearnsii'' (Pilsbry, 1895): synonym of ''

Sericominolia stearnsii ''Ethminolia stearnsii'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Ethminolia stearnsii (Pilsbry, 1895). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Spec ...

'' (Pilsbry, 1895) * ''

Ethminolia vitiliginea ''Ethminolia vitiliginea'', common name the depressed top shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails. Description The size of an adult shell varies between 7 mm and 11 mm. The ...

'' (Menke, 1843) * † ''

Ethminolia wareni ''Ethminolia'' is a genus of sea snails, marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Umboniinae of the family (biology), family Trochidae, the top snails. Distribution This marine genus occurs in the Red Sea, Gulf of Oman, the Ara ...

'' Helwerda, Wesselingh & S. T. Williams, 2014 ;Species brought into synonymy : * ''Ethminolia bysma'' Herbert, 1992: synonym of '' Ethalia bysma'' Herbert, 1992 * ''Ethminolia cincta'' Cotton & Godfrey, 1938: synonym of ''

Spectamen cinctum ''Spectamen'' is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Solariellidae within the superfamily Trochoidea. Distribution This marine genus occurs off Australia, South Africa, Indonesia and the Philippines. Species ...

'' (Cotton & Godfrey, 1938) (original combination) * ''Ethminolia mayi'' Kershaw, 1955: synonym of ''

'' Iredale, 1924 * ''Ethminolia tasmanica'' Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962: synonym of ''

'' (Menke, 1843)

References

* 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 * Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. (1999) ''Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-Bearing Mollusca of Japan'' Elle Scientific Publications, Yao, Japan, 749 pp.

External links

Iredale, T. (1924). Results from Roy Bell's molluscan collections. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 49: 179-278
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