Charisma (gastropod)
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| Original image of a shell of Charisma compacta | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Trochidae |
| Genus: | Charisma Hedley, 1915 |
| Type species | |
| Charisma compacta Hedley, C., 1915
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Charisma is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[2]
Description
A genus related to Liotia, but without a varix to the outer lip. The species are few-whorled and spirally sculptured. Their umbilicus has an internal funicle. The operculum is corneous, concave, multispiral, with a spiral frilled lamella.[3]
Species
- Charisma arenacea (Pritchard, G.B. & J.H. Gatliff, 1902)
- Charisma candida (A. Adams, 1861)
- Charisma carinata (Verco, J.C., 1907)
- Charisma compacta Hedley, C., 1915
- Charisma josephi (Tenison-Woods, J.E., 1877)
- Charisma latebrosa (Hedley, C., 1907)
- Charisma radians (Laseron, 1954)
- Charisma simplex (Laseron, 1954)
References
- ^ OBIS: Charisma
- ^ Bouchet, P. (2012). Charisma Hedley, 1915. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=512296 on 2012-11-23
- ^ Hedley C. (1915), Studies on Australian Mollusca. Part XII; Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales v. 39
- Cotton, B.C., 1959. South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Govt. Printer, Adelaide
- Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F., 1962 [31/Dec/1962]. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Mem. Aust. Mus., 11:0-0
- Hickman, C.S. & McLean, J.H., 1990 26 November.. Systematic revision and suprageneric classification of trochacean gastropods . Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Science Series, 35:1-169
- Wilson, B., 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Odyssey Publishing, Kallaroo, WA