Scissurella

Scissurella
Drawing of the shell of Scissurella costata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Scissurelloidea
Family: Scissurellidae
Genus: Scissurella
d'Orbigny, 1824
Type species
Scissurella laevigata d'Orbigny, 1824
Species

See text

Synonyms[1]
  • Maxwellella Bandel, 1998
  • Praescissurella Lozouet, 1998
  • Reussella Bandel, 1998
  • Schismope Jeffreys, 1856
  • Woodwardia Crosse & P. Fischer, 1861

Scissurella is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Scissurellidae, the small slit snails.[1]

Species

According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), the following species with valid names are included within the genus Scissurella :[1]

Species in the genus Scissurella include:

Nomina dubia
Species brought into synonymy

References

  • "Scissurella". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
  • Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
  • Geiger D.L. (2003) Phylogenetic assessment of characters proposed for the generic classification of Recent Scissurellidae (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) with a description of one new genus and six new species frop Easter Island and Australia. Molluscan Research 23: 21-83
  • Geiger D.L. (2012) Monograph of the little slit shells. Volume 1. Introduction, Scissurellidae. pp. 1-728. Volume 2. Anatomidae, Larocheidae, Depressizonidae, Sutilizonidae, Temnocinclidae. pp. 729-1291. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Monographs Number 7.