Brookula

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Brookula
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Orthogastropoda
Superorder: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Cyclostrematidae
Genus: Brookula
Iredale, 1912
Species

See text.

Brookula is a genus of minute sea snails or micromolluscs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cyclostrematidae.

[edit] Description

The shells are small, globose-turbinate, white or semi-transparent, rather thin, with inflated whorls, umbilicate, and sculptured with prominent axial ribs, often with a spirally striate or lirate inter-costal surface.

[edit] Species within the genus Brookula

  • Brookula aethiopica
  • Brookula angeli
  • Brookula annectens Powell, 1937
  • Brookula annulata
  • Brookula antarctica
  • Brookula anxia
  • Brookula benthicola Dell, 1956
  • Brookula bifurcata
  • Brookula calypso
  • Brookula capensis
  • Brookula coatsianum
  • Brookula compacta
  • Brookula conica
  • Brookula contigua Powell, 1940
  • Brookula coronis
  • Brookula corulum (Hutton, 1885)
  • Brookula crassicostata
  • Brookula crebresculpta
  • Brookula decussata
  • Brookula delli
  • Brookula denseplicata
  • Brookula discoidea
  • Brookula disjuncta
  • Brookula enderbyensis Powell, 1931
  • Brookula endodonta
  • Brookula exquisita
  • Brookula finlayi Powell, 1933
  • Brookula finesia
  • Brookula gaudens
  • Brookula gemmula
  • Brookula iki
  • Brookula iredalei
  • Brookula jacksonensis
  • Brookula johnstoni
  • Brookula kerguelensis
  • Brookula kilcundae
  • Brookula meridionale
  • Brookula nepeanensis (Gatliff, J. H., 1906)
  • Brookula petalifera
  • Brookula pfefferi
  • Brookula pliculosa
  • Brookula powelli
  • Brookula prognata Finlay, 1927
  • Brookula pukeuriensis
  • Brookula pulcherrima
  • Brookula rossiana
  • Brookula sinusbreidensis
  • Brookula spinulata Absalão, R.S., Miyaji & A.D. Pimenta, 2001 - Brazil
  • Brookula tenuilirata
  • Brookula valdiviae

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