Meioceras | |
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Lectotype of Meioceras nitidum at MNHN, Paris | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Superfamily: | Truncatelloidea |
Family: | Caecidae |
Genus: | Meioceras Carpenter, 1859 |
Type species | |
Meioceras cornucopiaeCarpenter, 1859 | |
Synonyms | |
Caecum (Meioceras)Carpenter, 1859 |
Meioceras is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Caecidae. [1]
Species within the genus Meioceras include:
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Teinostoma is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Teinostomatidae.
Caecidae is a taxonomic family of minute sea snails or micromolluscs, marine gastropod molluscs in the order Littorinimorpha.
Caecum is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod micromolluscs or micromollusks in the family Caecidae or blind shells.
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Philine is a genus of sea slugs or sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Philininae of the family Philinidae, the headshield slugs or paper bubbles.
Acteon is a genus of small sea snails, predatory marine gastropod mollusks in the family Acteonidae, the barrel bubble snails.
Daphnella is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae.
Mangelia is a large genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.
Fossarus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Planaxidae.
Meioceras nitidum is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Caecidae.
Parastrophia is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs or micromollusks in the family Caecidae.
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Mathilda is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mathildidae.
Vitreolina is a genus of very small parasitic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the Eulimidae family.
Solecurtus is a genus of saltwater clam, a marine bivalve molluscs in the family Solecurtidae.
Cyclostremiscus is a genus of small sea snails in the family Tornidae.
Mauroceras is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Caecidae.