Stomatia
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| Stomatia | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Vetigastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Trochidae |
| Subfamily: | Stomatellinae |
| Genus: | Stomatia Helbling, 1779[1] |
| Type species | |
| Stomatia phymotis Helbling, G.S., 1779 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Stomax Montfort, 1810 | |
Stomatia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[2]
Description
The spiral shell is oblong or depressed orbicular. The spire is prominent but short. The surface is tubercled or keeled. The whorls show a series of short folds below the suture. The aperture is either oblong or transversely oval, and longer than wide or the reverse. The interior of the shell is nacreous. There is no operculum. [3]
Species
Species within the genus Stomatia include:
- Stomatia duplicata G.B. Sowerby I, 1823[4]
- Stomatia phymotis (Hebling, 1779)[5]
- Stomatia splendidula A. Adams, 1855[6]
The Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database also mentions the following species [7]
- Stomatia acuminata A. Adams, 1850
- Stomatia decussata A. Adams, 1850
- Stomatia sulcata (Lamarck, 1816)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Stomatia azonea Brusina, 1865: synonym of Megalomphalus azoneus (Brusina, 1865)
- Stomatia kutschigi Brusina, 1865: synonym of Fossarus ambiguus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Stomatia planulata Schepman, 1908: synonym of Microtis tuberculata A. Adams, 1850
References
- ↑ Stomatia Helbling, 1779. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 September 2012.
- ↑ Stomatia . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 12 June 2012.
- ↑ G.W. Tryon (continued by Pilsbry) (1890) Manual of Conchology XII Stomatellidae, Scissurellidae, Pleurotomariidae, Haliotidae, Scutellinidae, Addisoniidae, Cocculinidae, Fissurellidae
- ↑ Stomatia duplicata G.B. Sowerby I, 1823. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 1 May 2010.
- ↑ Stomatia phymotis (Hebling, 1779). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 1 May 2010.
- ↑ Stomatia splendidula A. Adams, 1855. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 1 May 2010.
- ↑ OBIS: Stomatia
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