Canalispira

Canalispira
Shell of Canalispira umuhlwa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Cystiscidae
Subfamily:	Canalispirinae
Genus:	Canalispira Jousseaume, 1875
Type species
Canalispira olivellaeformis Jousseaume, 1875
Synonyms [1]
Baroginella Laseron, 1957 OsvaldoginellaEspinosa & Ortea, 1997

Canalispira is a genus of very small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Cystiscidae. ^[1]

Species

Species within the genus Canalispira include:

• Canalispira attentia (Laseron, 1957)
• Canalispira aurea Garcia, 2006 ^[2]
• Canalispira columellaria Boyer, 2018
• Canalispira fallax (Smith, 1903)
• Canalispira infirma (Laseron, 1957)
• Canalispira kerni Garcia, 2007 ^[3]
• Canalispira lipei Garcia, 2007 ^[4]
• Canalispira minor (Dall, 1927)
• Canalispira olivellaeformis Jousseaume, 1875
• Canalispira replicata (Melvill, 1912)
• Canalispira shacklefordi (Preston, 1915)
• Canalispira umuhlwa Kilburn, 1990

Species brought into synonymy

• Canalispira fluctuataMcCleery & Wakefield, 2007: ^[5] synonym of Osvaldoginella fluctuata (McCleery & Wakefield, 2007) (original combination)
• Canalispira gomezi(Espinosa & Ortea, 1997): synonym of Osvaldoginella gomezi Espinosa & Ortea, 1997
• Canalispira hoffi(Moolenbeek & Faber, 1991): synonym of Osvaldoginella hoffi (Moolenbeek & Faber, 1991)
• Canalispira ornataMcCleery & Wakefield, 2007: ^[6] synonym of Osvaldoginella gomezi Espinosa & Ortea, 1997 (original combination)
• Canalispira phantasiaMcCleery & Wakefield, 2007: ^[7] synonym of Osvaldoginella phantasia (McCleery & Wakefield, 2007) (original combination)

References

1. Canalispira Jousseaume, 1875 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 2 January 2011.
2. Canalispira aurea Garcia, 2006 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 24 April 2010.
3. Canalispira kerni Garcia, 2007 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 24 April 2010.
4. Canalispira lipei Garcia, 2007 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 24 April 2010.
5. Canalispira fluctuata McCleery & Wakefield, 2007 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 24 April 2010.
6. Canalispira ornata McCleery & Wakefield, 2007 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 24 April 2010.
7. Canalispira phantasia McCleery & Wakefield, 2007 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 24 April 2010.

Further reading

• Laseron, C. F. (1957). A new classification of the Australian Marginellidae (Mollusca), with a review of species from the Solanderian and Dampierian zoogeographical provinces. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 8(3): 274-311
• Coovert G. A. & Coovert H. K. (1995). "Revision of the supraspecific classification of marginelliform gastropods". The Nautilus 109(2-3): 43-110.

External links

• Jousseaume F. (1875). Coquilles de la famille des marginelles. Monographie. Revue et Magazin de Zoologie. ser. 3, 3: 164-271; 429-435
• McCleery T. & Wakefield A. (2007). "A review of the enigmatic genus Canalispira Jousseaume, 1875 (Gastropoda: Cystiscidae) with the description of three new species from the western Atlantic". Novapex 8(1): 1-10