Stomatellidae

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Stomatellidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Orthogastropoda
Superorder: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Stomatellidae
Gray, 1840
Genera

See text.

Stomatellidae is a taxonomic family of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the suborder Vetigastropoda.

(Note: Gastropod taxonomy has been in flux for more than half a century, and this is especially true currently, because of new research in molecular phylogeny. Because of all the on-going changes, different reliable sources can yield very different classifications.)

[edit] Description

These are mostly small shells, depressed, of few whorls, the last with a very large aperture from which the whole of the interior of the body whorl is visible. The operculum is absent in most of the genera.

The interior of the shell is iridescent because of a layer of nacre.

[edit] Genera within the family Stomatellidae

  • Broderipia Gray, 1847
  • Roya Iredale, 1912
  • Stomatella Lamarck, 1816
  • Stomatia Helbling, 1779
  • Syncera

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