Attenuata

Attenuata
Attenuata schoutanica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Lironobidae
Genus:	Attenuata Hedley, 1918
Type species
Rissoa integellaHedley, 1904
Synonyms
AdolphinobaPowell, 1930 NoboliraFinlay, 1926

Attenuata is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Lironobidae. ^[1]

Species

There are 21 species within the genus Attenuata, including: ^[1]

• † Attenuata admiranda Richardson, 1997
• Attenuata affinis (Powell, 1940)
• Attenuata archensis (May, 1913)
• Attenuata bollonsi (Powell, 1930)
• † Attenuata charassa (Finlay, 1924)
• Attenuata cochlearella (Powell, 1937)
• Attenuata contigua (Powell, 1940)
• † Attenuata eocenica Maxwell, 1992
• Attenuata finlayi (Powell, 1930)
• Attenuata hinemoa (C. A. Fleming, 1948)
• † Attenuata inflata (Laws, 1939)
• Attenuata integella (Hedley, 1904)
• Attenuata lockyeri (Hedley, 1911)
• Attenuata manawatawhia (Powell, 1937)
• Attenuata merelina (Dell, 1956)
• Attenuata orientalis (Dell, 1956)
• † Attenuata polyvincta (Finlay, 1924)
• Attenuata praetornatilis (Hedley, 1912)
• Attenuata regis (Powell, 1940)
• Attenuata schoutanica (May, 1913)
• Attenuata wilsonensis (Gatliff & Gabriel, 1913)

Distribution

This marine genus is endemic to Australia and is found off New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria.

References

1. Attenuata Hedley, 1918 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 4 December 2018.

• Powell A.W.B. (1930) New species of New Zealand Mollusca from shallow-water dredgings. Part 1. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 60: 532-543.
• Finlay, H.J. 1926. New Shells from New Zealand Tertiary Beds: Part 2. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 56: 227–258

External links

• Hedley C. (1918). A checklist of the marine fauna of New South Wales. Part 1. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales. 51: M1-M120

External links

• "Attenuata integella". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
• Ponder W. F. (1985) A review of the genera of the Rissoidae (Mollusca: Mesogastropoda: Rissoacea). Records of the Australian Museum supplement 4: 1-221