''Setaepoma'' is a
genus
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of minute
salt marsh
A salt marsh or saltmarsh, also known as a coastal salt marsh or a tidal marsh, is a coastal ecosystem in the upper coastal intertidal zone between land and open saltwater or brackish water that is regularly flooded by the tides. It is domin ...
snail
A snail is, in loose terms, a shelled gastropod. The name is most often applied to land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. However, the common name ''snail'' is also used for most of the members of the molluscan class G ...
s with an
operculum,
terrestrial
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Terrestrial may also refer to:
* Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on or near the ground, as opposed to ...
gastropod mollusk
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s in the subfamily
Omphalotropidinae of the family
Assimineidae
Assimineidae is a family of minute snails, also known as palmleaf snails, with an operculum, gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the superfamily Rissoidae. Many of these very small snails live in intermediate habitats, being amphibious betwee ...
.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Setaepoma Clench, 1955. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1337465 on 2022-05-30]
Species
* ''
Setaepoma hedigeri
''Setaepoma'' is a genus of minute salt marsh snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Omphalotropidinae of the family Assimineidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Setaepoma Clench, 1955. Accessed thro ...
''
(I. Rensch & B. Rensch, 1935)
* ''
Setaepoma hoodi
''Setaepoma'' is a genus of minute salt marsh snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Omphalotropidinae of the family Assimineidae
Assimineidae is a family of minute snails, also known as palmleaf snails, ...
''
Clench, 1965
* ''
Setaepoma mayri''
Clench, 1958
References
* Clench, W. J. (1955). Setaepoma, a new genus in the Synceridae from the Solomon Islands. Nautilus. 68, 134
External links
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