Misplaced Pages

Smaragdinella

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Genus of sea snails Not to be confused with Smaragdina or Smaragdia.

Smaragdinella
Smaragdinella calyculata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Cephalaspidea
Superfamily: Haminoeoidea
Family: Haminoeidae
Genus: Smaragdinella
A. Adams, 1848
Type species
Bulla viridis
Quoy & Gaimard, 1833
Synonyms
  • Glauconella Gray, 1850
  • Linteria A. Adams, 1850

Smaragdinella is a genus of medium-sized sea snails or bubble snails, marine opisthobranch gastropod molluscs in the family Haminoeidae, the haminoea bubble snails, part of the clade Cephalaspidea, the headshield slugs and bubble snails.

Species

Species within the genus Smaragdinella include:

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

  1. ^ 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
  • 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

Taxon identifiers
Smaragdinella
Categories: