Murdochella
| Murdochella | |
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| Shell of Murdochella macrina (holotype at the Australian Myseum) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Epitonioidea |
| Family: | Epitoniidae |
| Genus: | Murdochella Finlay, 1927 |
| Type species | |
| Scala levifoliata Murdoch & Suter, 1906
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Murdochella is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropods in the family Epitoniidae, the wentletraps, the purple snails, and their allies. [1]
Species
[edit]The following species are recognised in the genus Murdochella:
- Murdochella alacer Finlay, 1927
- Murdochella antarctica Dell, 1990
- Murdochella crispata Kilburn, 1985
- Murdochella levifoliata (Murdoch & Suter, 1906)
- Murdochella lobata Kilburn, 1985
- Murdochella macrina Iredale, 1936
- Murdochella tricingulata Campagnari & Geiger, 2018
- Murdochella turritelliformis L. G. Brown, 2019
Former species
[edit]- Murdochella magellanica (Philippi, 1845): synonym of Cirsotrema magellanicum (R. A. Philippi, 1845)
- Murdochella superlata Finlay, 1930 - synonymized with Papuliscala superlata (Finlay, 1930)
- Murdochella tertia Finlay, 1930 - synonymized with Murdochella alacer Finlay, 1927
References
[edit]- ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Murdochella Finlay, 1926". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2023-07-09.
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- Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
- Spencer, H.; Marshall. B. (2009). All Mollusca except Opisthobranchia. In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp
External links
[edit]- Finlay, H. J. (1926). A further commentary on New Zealand molluscan systematics. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute. 57: 320-485, pls 18-23
- Brown L.G. & Neville B.D. (2015). Catalog of the recent taxa of the families Epitoniidae and Nystiellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) with a bibliography of the descriptive and systematic literature. Zootaxa. 3907(1): 1-188
- Kilburn R.N. (1985). The family Epitoniidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in southern Africa and Mozambique. Annals of the Natal Museum. 27(1): 239-337.
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