''Smaragdinella'' is a

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of medium-sized

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 or bubble snails, marine

opisthobranch Opisthobranchs () is a now informal name for a large and diverse group of specialized complex gastropods which used to be united in the subclass Opisthobranchia. That taxon is no longer considered to represent a monophyletic grouping. Euopistho ...

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 in the

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Haminoeidae Haminoeidae, commonly known as the haminoeid bubble snail family, is a taxonomic family of sea snails, marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Haminoeoidea. The name of this family has long been controversial, and used to be ...

, the haminoea bubble snails, part of the clade

Cephalaspidea The order Cephalaspidea, also known as the headshield slugs and bubble snails, is a major taxon of sea slugs and bubble snails, marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks within the larger clade Euopisthobranchia. Bubble shells is another commo ...

, the headshield slugs and bubble snails.Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2013). Smaragdinella A. Adams, 1848. In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138055 on 2016-07-13

Species

Species within the genus ''Smaragdinella'' include: * '' Smaragdinella calyculata'' (Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829) * '' Smaragdinella fragilis'' Bozzetti, 2008 * '' Smaragdinella kirsteueri'' Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1970 * '' Smaragdinella sieboldi'' A. Adams, 1864 ;Species brought into synonymy: * ''Smaragdinella algirae'' (A. Adams in G. B. Sowerby II, 1850): synonym of '' Melanochlamys algirae'' (A. Adams in G. B. Sowerby II, 1850) * ''Smaragdinella andersoni'' (G. Nevill & H. Nevill, 1871): synonym of ''Smaragdinella sieboldi'' A. Adams, 1864 * ''Smaragdinella canaliculata'' (Broderip & G.B. Sowerby I, 1829): synonym of ''Smaragdinella calyculata'' (Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829) * ''Smaragdinella thecaphora'' Carpenter, 1857: synonym of '' Julia thecaphora'' (Carpenter, 1857) * ''Smaragdinella viridis'' (Rang in Quoy & Gaimard, 1832): synonym of ''Smaragdinella calyculata'' (Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829)

References

* Rudman, W. B. (1972). The herbivorous opisthobranch genera Phanerophthalmus A. Adams and Smaragdinella A. Adams. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 40: 189-210

External links

Adams A. 1850.'' Monograph of the family Bullidae. In: G.B. Sowerby II (ed.), Thesaurus Conchyliorum, vol. 2: 553-608, pl. 119-125

Adams, A. & Reeve, L. A. (1848-1850). Mollusca. In A. Adams (ed.), The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Samarang, under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, C.B., F.R.A.S., F.G.S., during the years 1843-1846. Reeve & Benham, London, x + 87 pp., 24 pls.

Gray, J. E. (1850). (text). In: Gray, M. E., Figures of molluscous animals, selected from various authors. Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, London. Vol. 4, iv + 219 pp.

Oskars T.R., Too C.C., Rees D., Mikkelsen P.M., Willassen E. & Malaquias M.A.E. (2019). A molecular phylogeny of the gastropod family Haminoeidae sensu lato (Heterobranchia: Cephalaspidea): a generic revision. Invertebrate Systematics. 33: 426-472.
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