Elachisina | |
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Shell of Elachisina canarica (holotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Superfamily: | Truncatelloidea |
Family: | Elachisinidae |
Genus: | Elachisina Dall, 1918 |
Type species | |
Elachisina grippiDall, 1918 | |
Synonyms | |
MicrodochusRehder, 1943 |
Elachisina is a genus of small sea snails in the family Elachisinidae. [1]
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Turbonillinae is a subfamily of mostly minute parasitic sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.
The Buccinidae are a very large and diverse taxonomic family of large sea snails, often known as whelks or true whelks.
Amathinidae, is a taxonomic family mostly consisting of small and minute sea snails, marine heterobranch gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the superfamily Pyramidelloidea.
Lodderena is a genus of minute sea snails or micromolluscs, marine gastropod molluscs, formerly in the family Skeneidae. Following a morphological reevaluation, it was excluded from Skeneidae and treated as incertae sedis within the superfamily Trochoidea.
Eumetula is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Eumetulinae of the family Newtoniellidae.
Seguenzioidea is a superfamily of minute to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Vetigastropoda.
Elachisinidae is a family of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Truncatelloidea and the order Littorinimorpha.
Phymorhynchus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae.
Parviturbo is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Skeneidae.
Vetulonia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks, unassigned in the superfamily Seguenzioidea.
Melanella is a genus of very small ectoparasitic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Eulimidae.
Alvania is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Rissoidae.
Rissoella is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropods, in the family Rissoellidae.
Adeuomphalus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs unassigned to family within the superfamily Seguenzioidea.
Cerithiopsis is a genus of very small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Cerithiopsidae.
Spirotropis is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Drilliidae.
Turbonilla is a large genus of ectoparasitic sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.
Orbitestella is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Orbitestellidae.
Strobiligera is a genus of minute sea snails with left-handed shell-coiling, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Triphoridae.