''Mauroceras'' is a
genus
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of minute
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
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s or
micromollusk
A micromollusc is a shelled mollusc which is extremely small, even at full adult size. The word is usually, but not exclusively, applied to marine molluscs, although in addition, numerous species of land snails and freshwater molluscs also ...
s in the
family
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Caecidae
Caecidae is a taxonomic family of minute sea snails or micromolluscs, marine gastropod molluscs in the order Littorinimorpha.Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2013). Caecidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies ...
.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Mauroceras Vannozzi, 2019. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1356167 on 2021-07-08]
Species
* ''
Mauroceras amamiense''
(Habe, 1978)
* ''
Mauroceras boucheti''
(Pizzini & Raines, 2011)
* ''
Mauroceras kajiyamai
''Mauroceras'' is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Caecidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Mauroceras Vannozzi, 2019. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://w ...
''
(Habe, 1963)
* ''
Mauroceras legumen
''Mauroceras'' is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Caecidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Mauroceras Vannozzi, 2019. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://w ...
''
(Hedley, 1899)
* ''
Mauroceras maestratii''
(Pizzini, Raines & Vannozzi, 2013)
* ''
Mauroceras rhinoceros
''Mauroceras'' is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Caecidae
Caecidae is a taxonomic family of minute sea snails or micromolluscs, marine gastropod molluscs in the order Littorinimorpha.B ...
''
(Pizzini, Raines & Vannozzi, 2013)
* ''
Mauroceras sandwichense''
(de Folin, 1881)
* ''
Mauroceras serratum''
(Vannozzi, 2017)
References
* Vannozzi A. (2019). Mauroceras, a new genus for Indo-West Pacific species hitherto assigned to Meioceras (Gastropoda: Caecidae). Bollettino Malacologico. 55(1): 55–61.
External links
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Caecidae