Mucronalia

Mucronalia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
Superfamily: Eulimoidea
Family: Eulimidae
Genus: Mucronalia
A. Adams, 1860
Type species
Mucronalia bicincta A. Adams, 1860

Mucronalia is a genus of very small parasitic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Eulimidae.[1]

This genus was first described in 1860 by Arthur Adams in his paper, "On some new genera and species of Mollusca from Japan".[2]

These sea snails are thought to be parasitic on ophiuroids (brittle stars).[3]

Species

Species within the genera Mucronalia include:[4]

Taxon inquerendum
Nomen nudum
Species brought into synonymy

References

  1. "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Mucronalia A. Adams, 1860". Marinespecies.org. Retrieved 15 August 2013.
  2. Adams, Arthur (1860). "On some new genera and species of Mollusca from Japan". Annals and Magazine of Natural History: 301.
  3. Waren, Anders (1980). "Revision of the Genera Thyca, Stilifer, Scalenostoma, Mucronalia and Echineulima (Mollusca, Prosobranchia, Eulimidae)". Zoologica Scripta. 9: 187. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.1980.tb00663.x.
  4. "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Mucronalia A. Adams, 1860". Marinespecies.org. Retrieved 15 August 2013.
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