Mesopelex

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Mesopelex
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Lepetelloidea
Family: Pseudococculinidae
Genus: Mesopelex
B.A. Marshall, 1986 [1]

Mesopelex is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudococculinidae, the false limpets. [2]

A genus is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus.

Sea snail common name for snails that normally live in saltwater

Sea snail is a common name for snails that normally live in salt water, in other words marine gastropods. The taxonomic class Gastropoda also includes snails that live in other habitats, such as land snails and freshwater snails. Many species of sea snails are edible and exploited as food sources by humans.

Family is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy; it is classified between order and genus. A family may be divided into subfamilies, which are intermediate ranks between the ranks of family and genus. The official family names are Latin in origin; however, popular names are often used: for example, walnut trees and hickory trees belong to the family Juglandaceae, but that family is commonly referred to as being the "walnut family".

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Species

Species within the genus Mesopelex include: [2]

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References

  1. ↑ Marshall B.A. (1986 ("1985")) Recent and Tertiary Cocculinidae and Pseudococculinidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from New Zealand and New South Wales. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 12: 505-546. (Published 2 July 1986). World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 2013-02-02.
  2. 1 2 Bouchet, P. (2012). Mesopelex B.A. Marshall, 1986. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=579385 on 2013-02-02


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