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''Moerchia'' is a
genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
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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
family Family (from ) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It forms the basis for social order. Ideally, families offer predictabili ...
Pyramidellidae Pyramidellidae, common name the pyram family, or pyramid shells, is a voluminous taxonomic family of mostly small and minute ectoparasitic sea snails, marine heterobranch gastropod molluscs. The great majority of species of pyrams are micromol ...
, the pyrams and their allies.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Moerchia A. Adams, 1860. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=559939 on 2021-08-11


Species

* ''
Moerchia deformata ''Moerchia'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Moerchia A. Adams, 1860. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: ht ...
'' Rubio & Rolán, 2014 * ''
Moerchia intermedia ''Moerchia'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Moerchia A. Adams, 1860. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: ht ...
'' (Thiele, 1925) * ''
Moerchia introspecta ''Moerchia'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Moerchia A. Adams, 1860. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: ht ...
'' Hedley, 1907 * ''
Moerchia morleti ''Moerchia'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Moerchia A. Adams, 1860. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: ht ...
'' P. Fischer, 1877 * ''
Moerchia obvoluta ''Moerchia obvoluta'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.Bouchet, P. (2011).''Moerchia obvoluta'' A. Adams, 1860. World Register of Marine Species The World Registe ...
'' A. Adams, 1860 * ''
Moerchia perforata ''Moerchia'' is a genus of sea snails, marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks in the family (biology), family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Moerchia A. Adams, 1860. Accessed through: World ...
'' Rubio & Rolán, 2014 ;Taxon inquirendum: * ''Moerchia biplicata'' P. Fischer, 1877


References

* Thiele, J. (1924). Revision des Systems der Trochacea. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin. 11(1): 47-74 * Thiele, J. (1929-1935). Handbuch der systematischen Weichtierkunde. Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1154 pp. * Rubio F. & Rolán E. (2014). Two new species of Moerchia A. Adams, 1860 (Gastropoda, Pyramidellidae) from southwest tropical Pacific. Novapex. 15(3-4): 63-71


External links


Adams, A. (1860). On some new genera and species of Mollusca from Japan. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (3) 5: 299-303 [1 April 1860]; 405-413

Laseron, C. F. (1958). Liotiidae and allied molluscs from the Dampierian Zoogeographical Province. Records of the Australian Museum. 24: 165-182
Pyramidellidae {{Pyramidellidae-stub