Dentiovula dorsuosa | |
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A live individual of Dentiovula dorsuosa, in situ on its prey species, in Metinaro, East Timor. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Family: | Ovulidae |
Genus: | Dentiovula |
Species: | D. dorsuosa |
Binomial name | |
Dentiovula dorsuosa (Hinds, 1844) | |
Synonyms [1] | |
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Dentiovula dorsuosa is a species of sea snail in the family Ovulidae, the ovulids, cowry allies or false cowries. [1]
Marginella is a very large genus of small tropical and temperate sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Marginellinae of the family Marginellidae, the margin snails. It is a type of genus family.
Ovulidae, common names the ovulids, cowry allies or false cowries, is a family of small to large predatory or parasitic sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Cypraeoidea, the cowries and the cowry allies.
Terebra is a genus of small to large-sized predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Terebrinae of the family Terebridae, the auger snails.
Acmaea is a genus of sea snails, specifically true limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Acmaeidae, one of the families of true limpets.
Primovula is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Ovulidae, the false cowries.
Architectonica is a genus of sea snails in the family Architectonicidae.
Hastula is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Terebridae, the auger snails.
Myurella is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Terebrinae of the family Terebridae, the auger snails.
Phos is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Nassariidae.
Eupleura is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
Dentiovula azumai is a species of sea snail in the family Ovulidae, the ovulids, cowry allies or false cowries.
Dentiovula colobica is a species of sea snail in the family Ovulidae, the ovulids, cowry allies or false cowries.
Dentiovula eizoi is a species of sea snail in the family Ovulidae, the ovulids, cowry allies or false cowries.
Dentiovula horai is a species of sea snail in the family Ovulidae, the ovulids, cowry allies or false cowries.
Dentiovula masaoi is a species of sea snail in the family Ovulidae, the ovulids, cowry allies or false cowries.
Dentiovula is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Ovulidae.
Marginellinae is a taxonomic subfamily within the larger family of Marginellidae, a group of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Volutoidea.
The subfamily Ovulinae, common name the ovulines, is a highly specialized, extant group of sea snails in the family Ovulidae. These are predatory or parasitic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks within the superfamily Cypraeoidea. Species in this subfamily are sometimes referred to as cowries, although this name is commonly used for any member of the superfamily Cypraeoidea.
Richard Brinsley Hinds FRCS was a British naval surgeon, botanist and malacologist. He sailed on the 1835–42 voyage by HMS Sulphur to explore the Pacific Ocean, and edited the natural history reports of that expedition.
Neoterebra is a genus of marine snails, gastropod molluscs in the family Terebridae, subfamily Terebrinae.