''Exesilla'' is a
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of
sea snails,
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gastropod mollusk
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s in the
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Pyramidellidae
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, the pyrams and their allies.
[Bouchet, P. (2011). ''Exesilla'' Laseron, 1959. Accessed through: ]World Register of Marine Species
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Species
Species within the genus ''Exesilla'' include:
* ''
Exesilla conicera
''Exesilla'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.Bouchet, P. (2011). ''Exesilla'' Laseron, 1959. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marines ...
''
(Laseron, 1959)
* ''
Exesilla dextra
''Exesilla'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.Bouchet, P. (2011). ''Exesilla'' Laseron, 1959. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marines ...
''
(Saurin, 1959)
* ''
Exesilla gisela
''Exesilla'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.Bouchet, P. (2011). ''Exesilla'' Laseron, 1959. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species
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''
(Thiele, 1925)
* ''
Exesilla laseroni
''Exesilla laseroni'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.Bouchet, P. (2011). ''Exesilla laseroni'' Robba, Di Geronimo, Chaimanee, Negri & Sanfilippo, 2004. Accessed th ...
''
Robba, Di Geronimo, Chaimanee, Negri & Sanfilippo, 2004
* ''
Exesilla sulcata''
Laseron, 1959
References
* Robba E. (2013) Tertiary and Quaternary fossil pyramidelloidean gastropods of Indonesia. Scripta Geologica 144: 1-191
External links
To World Register of Marine Species
Pyramidellidae
Gastropod genera
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