Balanetta
Appearance
Balanetta | |
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Shell of Balanetta baylii (syntype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Volutoidea |
Family: | Marginellidae |
Genus: | Balanetta Jousseaume, 1875 |
Species | |
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Synonyms | |
Cancellarioidea Forbes & Hanley, 1851 |
Balanetta is a genus of small, often colorful, sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the taxonomic family of the margin shells (Marginellidae).[1]
Species
- Balanetta amydrozona (Melvill, 1906)
- Balanetta baylii Jousseaume, 1875
- Balanetta cylichnella (May, 1917)
- Balanetta pisum (Reeve, 1865)
- Balanetta triptycta Le Renard & van Nieulande, 1985
- Species brought into synonymy
- Balanetta baylei Jousseaume, 1875: synonym of Balanetta baylii Jousseaume, 1875 (alternative original spelling; spelling baylii selected by First Reviser choice by Tomlin (1917))
- Balanetta decaryi Bavay, 1920: synonym of Ovaginella decaryi (Bavay, 1920)
- Balanetta ovulum (G.B. Sowerby, 1846): synonym of Ovaginella ovulum (G.B. Sowerby, 1846)
Description
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Distribution
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References
- ^ WoRMS (2010). Balanetta Jousseaume, 1875. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=465260 on 2010-12-04
- Jousseaume, F., 1875. Coquilles de la famille des marginelles, Monographie. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie Pure et Appliquée 3(3): 164-278
- Cossignani T. (2006). Marginellidae & Cystiscidae of the World. L'Informatore Piceno. 408pp.
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