Murdochella | |
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Shell of Murdochella macrina (holotype at the Australian Myseum) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Epitonioidea |
Family: | Epitoniidae |
Genus: | Murdochella Finlay, 1927 |
Type species | |
Scala levifoliata Murdoch & Suter, 1906 | |
Species | |
See text |
Murdochella is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropods in the family Epitoniidae, the wentletraps, the purple snails, and their allies. [1]
The following species are recognised in the genus Murdochella:
Calliostomatidae is a family of sea snails within the superfamily Trochoidea and the clade Vetigastropoda.
Wentletraps are small, often white, very high-spired, predatory or ectoparasitic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Epitoniidae.
Diloma is a genus of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Trochidae, the top snails.
The Calyptraeidae are a family of small to medium-sized marine prosobranch gastropods.
Cirsostrema is a genus of very small deepwater sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Epitoniidae, commonly known as the wentletraps.
Acirsa is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine prosobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Epitoniidae. They are commonly known as wentletraps.
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.
Penion is a genus of large marine snails, commonly known as siphon whelks, classified within the mollusc family Austrosiphonidae.
Polinices is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Polinicinae of the family Naticidae, commonly known as moon snails.
Tectonatica is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Naticinae of the family Naticidae, the moon snails.
Aeneator is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the whelk family Tudiclidae.
Micrelenchus is a genus of small sea snails that have shells with pearly interiors and an operculum. They are marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Cantharidinae of the family Trochidae, the top snails or top shells.
Papuliscala superlata is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc or micromollusc in the family Epitoniidae.
Euspira is a genus of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Polinicinae of the family Naticidae, the moon snails.
Marshallena is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Marshallenidae.
Lucapina is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets.
Austromitra is a genus of sea snails in the family Costellariidae. They are small carnivorous marine gastropod mollusks, most of which are less than 15 mm in length. They live on hard substrates, intertidally and to a depth of at least 1000 m. The genus is found in southern Africa, southern Australia, New Caledonia, and New Zealand.
Opalia is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Epitoniidae, commonly known as wentletraps.
Papuliscala is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropods in the family Epitoniidae of the superfamily Epitonioidea, the wentletraps, the purple snails, and their allies.