''Ponderinella'' 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 ...
of minute
sea snails
Sea snails are slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the absence of a visibl ...
,
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 ...
mollusc
Mollusca is a phylum of protostome, protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant taxon, extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum ...
s or
micromollusc
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
Elachisinidae
Elachisinidae is a family (biology), family of sea snails, marine (ocean), marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Truncatelloidea and the order Littorinimorpha.Gofas, S. (2012). Elachisinidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Spec ...
.
[Williams S. T., Karube S. & Ozawa T. (September 2008) "Molecular systematics of Vetigastropoda: Trochidae, Turbinidae and Trochoidea redefined". '']Zoologica Scripta
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'' 37(5): 483-506. [Bouchet, P. (2012). Ponderinella B.A. Marshall, 1988. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=390692 on 2012-08-13]
They are marine snails, only found in salt water environment. It was first discovered by Moolenbeek, R. G. and Hoenselaar, H. J. in 1995.
Species
This genus includes the following species:
* ''
Ponderinella carlosi''
Rolán & Rubio, 2002
* ''
Ponderinella difficilis''
Rubio & Rolán, 2018
* ''
Ponderinella finalis''
Rolán & Rubio, 2002
* ''
Ponderinella gabonensis''
Rolán & Rubio, 2012
* ''
Ponderinella ghanensis''
(Rolán & Ryall, 2000)
* ''
Ponderinella lignicola''
B.A. Marshall, 1988
* ''
Ponderinella major''
Hasegawa, 1997
* ''
Ponderinella minutissima''
Rolán & Rubio, 2002
* ''
Ponderinella skeneoides''
Rolán & Rubio, 2002
* ''
Ponderinella tornatica''
(Moolenbeek & Hoenselaar, 1995)
* ''
Ponderinella xacriaba''
Absalão, 2009
References
* Rolán E. & Rubio F. 2012. ''A new species and range extension of Ponderinella (Gastropoda, Tornidae) in West Africa''. Iberus, 30(2): 35-39
External links
Marshall B.A. 1988. ''Skeneidae, Vitrinellidae and Orbitestellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) associated with biogenic substrata from bathyal depths off New Zealand and New South Wales''. Journal of Natural History, 22(4): 949-1004Goto, R.; Takano, T.; Eernisse, D. J.; Kato, M.; Kano, Y. (2021). Snails riding mantis shrimps: Ectoparasites evolved from ancestors living as commensals on the host's burrow wall. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 163: 107122
Elachisinidae
Gastropod genera
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