''Meggittia'' 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 ...

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, the turrids and allies.MolluscaBase (2018). Meggittia Ray, 1977. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=432504 on 2018-12-10 Not to be confused with ''Meggittia'' Lopez-Neyra, 1929; a genus of

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s in the family Davaineidae.

Species

* '' Meggittia maungmagana'' Ray, 1977

References

* Ray, Harish Chandra. "Contribution to the knowledge of the molluscan fauna of Maungmagan, Lower Burma." (1977). Pseudomelatomidae Gastropod genera {{Pseudomelatomidae-stub