Trabecula (gastropod)

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Trabecula
Apertural view of the shell of Trabecula laxa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

informal group Lower Heterobranchia

Superfamily: Pyramidelloidea
Family: Pyramidellidae
Subfamily: Chrysallidinae
Genus: Trabecula
Monterosato, 1884[1]
Type species
Trabecula jeffreysiana Monterosato, 1884
Synonyms[2]

Salassiella Dall & Bartsch, 1909

Trabecula is a genus of very small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies, and the subfamily Chrysallidinae, a large taxon of minute marine gastropods with an intorted protoconch.[2]

General description

The whorls of the teleoconch are rounded, and longitudinally lamellose. The aperture is semicircular, with an exterior rib. There is no apparent spiral sculpture. The apex is retrorse. The columella lacks a fold or tooth.[3]

Species

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