Emarginula

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Emarginula
Emarginula striatula
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Fissurelloidea
Family: Fissurellidae
Genus: Emarginula
Lamarck, 1801
Species

See text.

Synonyms
  • Emarginella Pilsbry in Tryon & Pilsbry, 1891
  • Emarginulus Montfort, 1810
  • Entomella Cotton, 1945
  • Notamella Cotton, 1957

Emarginula is a genus of small keyhole limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Fissurellidae.

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[edit] Description

The oval shell is obliquely conical with a backward-pointing recurved apex. There is a deep incision in the anterior margin. A distinct anal fasciole extends upwards from this incision. The surface is latticed, sculptured with radial ribs. There is no septum inside.[1]

[edit] Radula

The radula has a dental formula of [many].1.4.1.4.1.[many],[2] with a wide, rectangular, acuspate rachidian tooth.[3] The various genera have a few dozen rows of teeth.[4]

[edit] Species

According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), species within the genus Emarginula include:[5]

The following species is mentioned in other databases :

The Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database also mentions the following species with names in current use :[7]

Subgenus Emarginula Lamarck, 1801
Subgenus Subzeidora Iredale, 1924

[edit] References

  1. ^ Tryon, George W. Jr. (1879-1898). Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic. Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. pp. 248. 
  2. ^ Torr, C.M. (1914). "Radulæ of some South Australian Gasteropoda". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 38: 362–368. http://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/Journals/TRSSA/TRSSA_V038/TRSSA_V038_p362p368.pdf. 
  3. ^ Keen, Angeline Myra (1971-06-01). Sea shells of tropical west America: marine mollusks from Baja California to Peru. ISBN 9780804707367. http://books.google.ca/books?id=Xj-2-KxUCcYC&pg=PA310. 
  4. ^ Torr, C.M. (1914). "Radulæ of some South Australian Gasteropoda". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 38: 362–368. http://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/Journals/TRSSA/TRSSA_V038/TRSSA_V038_p362p368.pdf. 
  5. ^ WoRMS : Emarginula; accessed : 4 October 2010
  6. ^ Gastropods.com : Emarginula striatula
  7. ^ OBIS : Emarginula
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