Sinezona

Sinezona
Temporal range: Miocene to Recent
Drawing with two views of a shell of Sinezona cingulata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Scissurelloidea
Family: Scissurellidae
Genus: Sinezona
Finlay, 1927
Type species
Schismope brevis Hedley, 1904
Species

See text

Synonyms
  • Schismope
  • Woodwardia
  • Ariella Bandel, 1998
  • Daizona Bandel, 1998 [1]

Sinezona is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Scissurellidae, the little slit shells.[1]

Description

The shell has turbinate or depressed turbinate form. The anal fissure is closed, forming a foramen in the outer wall of the aperture. The slit fasciole is shorter, not over 1½ whorls in length.

Sinezona is a Scissurella in which the anal slit becomes closed in the adult, and transformed into an oblong perforation like one of the holes of a Haliotis.[2]

Distribution

This marine genus occurs worldwide.

Species

Species in the genus Sinezona include:[1] [3][4]

Nomine dubia
Species brought into synonymy

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