Caribeginella

Caribeginella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Eratoidae
Genus:	Caribeginella Espinosa & Ortea, 1998
Type species
Caribeginella flormarinaEspinosa & Ortea, 1998

Caribeginella is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Eratoidae ^[1]

Taxonomy

Based on its taenioglossate radula, and despite its columellar folds, Espinosa & Ortea (1998) originally allocated Caribeginella to the family Triviidae. Fehse(2012) transferred Caribeginella to the Marginellidae in the synonymy of Hyalina , and suggested that the original authors had, during radula preparation, mixed its radula with that of a species of Triviidae. This view was rejected by Caballer et al. (2013), who treated Caribeginella as a valid marginelliform genus of uncertain suprageneric classification. ^[1]

Species

Species within the genus Caribeginella include:

• Caribeginella flormarina Espinosa & Ortea, 1998 ^[2]

References

1. Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2014). Caribeginella Espinosa & Ortea, 1998. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=456384 on 2015-02-12
2. Caribeginella flormarina Espinosa & Ortea, 1998 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 9 July 2010.

• Espinosa J. & Ortea J. (1998) Nuevo género y nueva especie de Molusco Gasterópodo maginelliforme (Mollusca: Gastropoda) con rádula taenioglossa. Avicennia 8-9: 113–116.
• Ortea, J. & Espinosa, J. (2022). "Caribeginella flormarina Espinosa & Ortea, 1988 (Mollusca: Mesogastropoda: Eratoidae) redescubierta en su localidad tipo,". Avicennia. 30: 31–34.
• Fehse, D. (2012). "Caribeginella Espinosa & Ortea 1998 eine Gattung der Trivioidea (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Littorinimorpha)?". Conchylia. 42 (1–4): 49–50.
• Caballer M., Espinosa J., Ortea J. & Narciso S (2013). "Nuevas especies de la familia Marginellidae (Mollusca: Neogastropoda: Muricoidea) de Venezuela". Revista de Biología Marina y Oceanografía. 48 (1): 115–129.