Microgaza
| Microgaza | |
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| Drawing of a shell of Microgaza rotella | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Clade: | Vetigastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Solariellidae |
| Genus: | Microgaza Dall, 1881 |
| Type species | |
| Microgaza rotella rotella Dall, W.H., 1881 | |
| Species | |
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See text | |
| Synonyms | |
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Solariella (Microgaza) Dall, 1881 | |
Microgaza is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Solariellidae.[1]
Description
The flattened shell is rotelliform, resembling a species from the genus Gaza without the reflected lip or umbilical callus. The shell is brilliantly nacreous when fresh. It has a distinctly scalariform umbilicus.[2]
Species
Species within the genus Microgaza include:
- Microgaza corona Lee Y.C. & Wu W.L., 2001[3]
- Microgaza fulgens Dall, 1907[4]
- Microgaza katoi (Kuroda & Habe, 1961)
- Microgaza konos Vilvens, 2009[5]
- Microgaza opalina (Shikama & Hayashi, 1977)
- Microgaza rotella Dall, 1881
- Microgaza vetula Woodring, 1928
- Species brought into synonymy
- Microgaza alabida (Marshall, 1979) accepted as Archiminolia alabida (B. A. Marshall, 1979)
- Microgaza dawsoni (Marshall, 1979) accepted as Archiminolia dawsoni (B. A. Marshall, 1979)
- Microgaza gotoi Poppe, Tagaro & Dekker, 2006:[6] synonym of Ilanga gotoi (Poppe, Tagaro & Dekker, 2006)
- Microgaza hurleyi (Marshall, 1979) accepted as Archiminolia hurleyi (B. A. Marshall, 1979)
- Microgaza inornata Quinn, 1979: synonym of Microgaza rotella inornata Quinn, 1979
- Microgaza iridescens (Habe, 1968):[7] synonym of Archiminolia iridescens (Habe, 1961)
- Microgaza norfolkensis Marshall, 1999;[8] synonym of Ilanga norfolkensis (B. A. Marshall, 1999)
- Microgaza ziczac Kuroda & Habe, 1971: synonym of Archiminolia ziczac (Kuroda & Habe, 1971)
References
- ↑ Microgaza . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 December 2012.
- ↑ Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
- ↑ Microgaza corona Lee Y.C. & Wu W.L., 2001. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 22 April 2010.
- ↑ Microgaza fulgens Dall, 1907. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 22 April 2010.
- ↑ Microgaza konos Vilvens, 2009. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 22 April 2010.
- ↑ Microgaza gotoi Poppe, Tagaro & Dekker, 2006. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 22 April 2010.
- ↑ Microgaza iridescens (Habe, 1968). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 22 April 2010.
- ↑ Microgaza norfolkensis Marshall, 1999. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 22 April 2010.
- W.H. Dall (1881), Preliminary Report of dredgings by USS Blake; Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College v. 9 pp. 1–144
- Williams S.T., Karube S. & Ozawa T. (2008) Molecular systematics of Vetigastropoda: Trochidae, Turbinidae and Trochoidea redefined. Zoologica Scripta 37: 483–506
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