Carinaria

Carinaria is a genus of medium-sized floating sea snails, pelagic gastropod molluscs in the family Carinariidae.

Anatomy

The cylindrical and elongate body consists of three parts : a short proboscis, a well-developed trunk and tail region of variable size. The size of this tail goes from very small in Carinaria galea to very large in Carinaria cristata. The well-developed swimming fin is located in both sexes at the back of the trunk and has at its back margin a small fin sucker. The right tentacle is small or vestigial. The cuticle is thick and gelatinous.

Species

Species within the genus Carinaria include:

• Carinaria lamarckii Blainville, 1817^[1] - synonyms: Carinaria australis J. R. C. Quoy & J. P. Gaimard, 1833
• Carinaria mediterranea de Blainville, 1825^[2]
• Carinaria pseudorugosa Vayssière, 1904 - synonym: Carinaria challengeri Bonnevie, 1920^[3] Carinaria lamarcki challengeri Bonnevie, 1920

• Carinaria cithara Benson, 1835 - harp carinaria
  • Carinaria cithara procumbens Tesch, 1906 - Indo-Pacific, Japan
• Carinaria cristata (Linnaeus, 1767) - Indo-Pacific
• Carinaria galea Benson, 1835 - helmet carinaria; Indo-Pacific
• Carinaria japonica Okutani, 1955 - Japan, North Pacific

References

Further reading

• Seapy, Roger R. 2008. Carinaria Lamarck 1801. Version 12 July 2008, Tree of Life Web Project: Carinaria
• "Carinaria". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=72857. 
• Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
• Bonnevie, K. 1920. Heteropoda collected during the "Michael Sars" North Atlantic Deep-Sea Expedition 1910 Report on the Scientific Results of the "Michael Sars" North Atlantic Deep Sea Expedition 1910 3(2) 1-16, pls. 1-5. [True date: 28 Feb 1920.]
• Malacolog Version 4.1.0 : A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca