Leiopyrga

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Leiopyrga
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Leiopyrga octona shell
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Leiopyrga
H. Adams & A. Adams, 1863 [1]
Type species
Leiopyrga lineolaris
Gould, A.A., 1861

Leiopyrga is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Trochidae, the top snails. [2]

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Description

The thin, perforate, elongated, narrow shell is somewhat turreted. The whorls are convex, rounded or carinated. The oval aperture is small. The columella is arcuate, not truncated at its base. This genus differs from Bankivia by its umbilicus. [3]

Species

Species brought into synonymy

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