Myosotella | |
---|---|
live Myosotella myosotis | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
Superfamily: | Ellobioidea |
Family: | Ellobiidae |
Subfamily: | Pythiinae |
Genus: | Myosotella Monterosato, 1906[1] |
Synonyms | |
Ovatella |
Myosotella is a European genus or subgenus (of Ovatella) of small, salt marsh snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ellobiidae. It eats algae growing on the rocks in a stream.
Species within the genus Myosotella include: