| Maesiella | |
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| Shell of Maesiella maesae | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Pseudomelatomidae |
| Genus: | Maesiella McLean, 1971 |
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| Maesiella maesae McLean & Poorman, 1971 | |
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Maesiella is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudomelatomidae.
The generic name Maesiella is named in honor of American malacologist Virginia Orr Maes.
Species
Species within the genus Maesiella include:
- Maesiella dominguezi (J. & W. Gibson-Smith, 1983)
- Maesiella hermanita (Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932)
- Maesiella maesae McLean & Poorman, 1971
- Maesiella punctatostriata (Carpenter, 1856)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Maesiella solitaria Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932: synonym of Maesiella punctatostriata (Carpenter, 1856)
References
- McLean (1971). Veliger 14: 123.
- ^ Maesiella McLean, 1971. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 15 April 2010.
- Robertson R. (1987). "Virginia Orr Maes (1920-1986): Biography and Malacological Bibliography". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 139: 527-532.
- Maesiella hermanita (Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 15 April 2010.
- Maesiella maesae McLean & Poorman, 1971. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 15 April 2010.
- Maesiella punctatostriata (Carpenter, 1856). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 15 April 2010.
External links
- McLean, J.H. (1971) A revised classification of the family Turridae, with the proposal of new subfamilies, genera, and subgenera from the Eastern Pacific. The Veliger, 14, 114–130
- Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
- Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77(3): 273-308
- Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Pseudomelatomidae
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