Minolia | |
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Minolia rotundata shell | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
Order: | Trochida |
Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
Family: | Solariellidae |
Genus: | Minolia A. Adams, 1860 [1] |
Type species | |
Minolia punctata Adams, A., 1860 [1] | |
Synonyms [2] | |
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Minolia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Solariellidae. [2]
A. Adams named the genus from Mino-Sima, the little island near Niphon (Japan). [1] Minolia was in older textbooks regarded as a subgenus of MargaritaLeach, 1819 (itself now a synonym of Margarites Gray, 1847).
The thin, delicate, smooth shell is depressed and widely umbilicated. The whorls are rounded or angulated. The spire is depressed. The sculpture is finely decussated. The aperture is circular. The outer lip and columella thin, simple, acute. The umbilicus is simple and contains no spiral, callous internal funicle or rib. [3]
These marine species belong to the Indian Ocean, the western and southwestern Pacific Ocean.
Species within the genus Minolia include:
Gibbula is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Cantharidinae of the family Trochidae, the top snails.
Emarginula is a genus of small keyhole limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Fissurellidae.
Herpetopoma is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs of the family Chilodontaidae.
Clanculus is a genus of sea snail, marine gastropod molluscs of the family Trochidae, the top shells.
Solariella is a genus of small to minute sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Solariellidae within the superfamily Trochoidea, the top snails, turban snails and their allies.
Cantharidus, common name the kelp shells, is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs of the family Trochidae, the top shells.
Daphnella is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae.
Vexillum is a genus of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Costellariidae.
Ethalia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Umboniinae of the family Trochidae, the top snails.
Ethminolia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Umboniinae of the family Trochidae, the top snails.
Euchelus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Chilodontaidae.
Monilea is a genus of sea snails in the family Trochidae, the top snails.
Pseudominolia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Trochidae, the top snails.
Stomatella is a genus of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Trochidae, the top snails and their allies.
Vanitrochus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Trochidae, the top snails.
Eucithara is a genus of small to quite large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.
Melanella is a genus of very small ectoparasitic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Eulimidae.
Eulima is a genus of small, ectoparasitic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Eulimidae.
Ilanga is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Solariellidae.
Conotalopia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Trochidae, the top shells.
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