''Neusas'' is a
genus
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of
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
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Tornidae
Tornidae is a family (biology), family of very small and minute sea snails with an Operculum (gastropod), operculum, marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Littorinimorpha. This family used to be known as the Vitrinellidae.Bouchet ...
within the superfamily
Truncatelloidea
Truncatelloidea is a family (biology), superfamily of snails, gastropod mollusc, mollusks in the clade Caenogastropoda.Bouchet, P. (2013). ''Truncatelloidea''. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/a ...
.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Neusas Warén & Bouchet, 2001. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=180981 on 2021-09-30]
The systematic position of this genus is uncertain. It is probably not in Tornidae.
Species
* ''
Neusas brooksi
''Neusas'' is a genus of sea snails, marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks in the family (biology), family Tornidae within the superfamily Truncatelloidea.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Neusas Warén & Bouchet, 2001. Accessed through ...
''
Fernández-Garcés, Rubio & Rolán, 2018
* ''
Neusas distorta
''Neusas'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Tornidae within the superfamily Truncatelloidea.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Neusas Warén & Bouchet, 2001. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Specie ...
''
Rubio & Rolán, 2018
* ''
Neusas inesae
''Neusas'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Tornidae within the superfamily Truncatelloidea.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Neusas Warén & Bouchet, 2001. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Specie ...
''
Rubio & Rolán, 2018
* ''
Neusas juliae
''Neusas'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Tornidae within the superfamily Truncatelloidea.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Neusas Warén & Bouchet, 2001. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Specie ...
''
Rubio & Rolán, 2018
* ''
Neusas marshalli''
(Sykes, 1925)
References
External links
*
Warén A. & Bouchet P. (2001). Gastropoda and Monoplacophora from hydrothermal vents and seeps new taxa and records. The Veliger, 44(2): 116-231
Tornidae
Gastropod genera
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