''Zethalia'' 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 in the subfamily
Umboniinae of the
family
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Trochidae, the top snails, first formally named in 1918.
Species
The genus contains one extant (still living) species and two extinct species:
* †''Zethalia coronata''
Marwick, 1948
* †''Zethalia russelli''
Marwick, 1965
* ''
Zethalia zelandica''
(Hombron & Jacquinot, 1855)
References
* Trew, A., 1984. ''The Melvill-Tomlin Collection. Part 30. Trochacea''. Handlists of the Molluscan Collections in the Department of Zoology, National Museum of Wales.
* Vaught, K. C. (1989). ''A classification of the living Mollusca''. Melbourne, Florida : American Malacologists. xii + 189 pp.
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