Lirularia

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Lirularia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Subfamily: Umboniinae
Genus: Lirularia
Dall, 1909
Type species
Lirularia lirulata Carpenter, P.P., 1864

Lirularia is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[1]

Species

Species within the genus Lirularia include:

The Indo-Pacific Molluscan database also mentions the following species [2]

  • Lirularia redimita (Gould, 1861 in 1859-61)
  • Lirularia yamadana (E. A. Smith, 1875-b)
Species brought into synonymy
  • Lirularia minima (Golikov, in Golikov & Scarlato, 1967): synonym of Conotalopia minima (Golikov, 1967)

References

  • Rubio F. & Rolán E. 1997. Una nueva especie de Lirularia (Gastropoda: Trochidae) de las islas de São Tomé y Príncipe. Iberus 15 (1): 23-29
  • Williams S.T., Karube S. & Ozawa T. (2008) Molecular systematics of Vetigastropoda: Trochidae, Turbinidae and Trochoidea redefined. Zoologica Scripta 37: 483–506

External links

Category : Trochidae

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