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Canalispira

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Canalispira
Shell of Canalispira umuhlwa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Cystiscidae
Subfamily: Canalispirinae
Genus: Canalispira
Jousseaume, 1875
Type species
Canalispira olivellaeformis
Synonyms[1]
  • Baroginella Laseron, 1957
  • Osvaldoginella Espinosa & Ortea, 1997

Canalispira is a genus of very small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Cystiscidae.[1]

Species

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Species within the genus Canalispira include:

Species brought into synonymy

References

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Further reading

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  • Laseron, C. F. (1957). A new classification of the Australian Marginellidae (Mollusca), with a review of species from the Solanderian and Dampierian zoogeographical provinces. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 8(3): 274-311
  • Coovert G. A. & Coovert H. K. (1995). "Revision of the supraspecific classification of marginelliform gastropods". The Nautilus 109(2-3): 43-110.
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