Menestho
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| Apertural view of the shell of Menestho felix | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia informal group Lower Heterobranchia |
| Superfamily: | Pyramidelloidea |
| Family: | Pyramidellidae |
| Subfamily: | Odostomiinae |
| Genus: | Menestho Möller, 1842 |
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Menestho is a genus of very small sea snails, pyramidellid gastropod mollusks, or micromollusks. [1]
Shell description
The original description by Möller (1842) is brief and in Latin: "Animal pede elongato, angusto; ore simplici, membrana linguali destituto; tentaculis brevioribus, crassiusculis, oculos perparvos ad basin internum ferentibus. Operculo pauco-spirato. Testa conico-turrita."
Life habits
Little is known about the biology of the members of this genus. As is true of most members of the Pyramidellidae sensu lato, they are most likely to be ectoparasites.
Species
Species within the genus Menestho include:
- Menestho akkeshiensis Habe, 1958
- Menestho albula (Fabricius, 1780) (Type species) (as Turbo albulus)
- Menestho beermanae Jong & Coomans, 1988
- Menestho diaphana (Jeffreys)
- Menestho exarata A. Adams, 1861
- Menestho felix (Dall & Bartsch, 1906) [2]
- Menestho hypocurta (Dall & Bartsch, 1909)
- Menestho shataii Nomura, 1936
- Menestho truncatula (Odhner, 1915)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Menestho amilda Dall & Bartsch, 1909: synonym of Odostomia amilda Dall & Bartsch, 1909
- Menestho beauforti Jacot, A.P., 1921: synonym of Boonea impressa (Say, T., 1822)
- Menestho chilensis Dall & Bartsch, 1909: synonym of Odostomia chilensis Dall & Bartsch, 1909
- Menestho divisa (J. Adams, 1797): synonym of Ondina divisa (Adams J., 1797)
- Menestho grijalvae (Baker, Hanna & Strong, 1928): synonym of Odostomia grijalvae Baker, Hanna & Strong, 1928
- Menestho tenuicula F. Nordsieck, 1972: synonym of Odostomia erjaveciana Brusina, 1869
References
- ↑ Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2011). Menestho Möller, 1842. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138409 on 2011-11-07
- ↑ Dall & Bartsch, Notes on Japanese, Indo-Pacific and American Pyramidellidae; Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum, vol XXX n° 1452; 1906
- Möller, H.P.C. (1842). Index Molluscorum Groenlandiae. Hafniae. pp. 24 pp.
- Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180-213
- Spencer, H.; Marshall. B. (2009). All Mollusca except Opisthobranchia. In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp
- Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp