Myosotella

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Myosotella
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Ellobiida
Superfamily: Ellobioidea
Family: Ellobiidae
Genus: Myosotella
Monterosato, 1906 [1]
Type species
Auricula payraudeaui
Shuttleworth, 1843
Synonyms [2]
  • AlexiaLeach in Gray, 1847 (Invalid: junior homonym of AlexiaStephens, 1833 [Coleoptera]; Nealexia is a replacement name)
  • Alexia (Kochia)Pallary, 1900
  • Auricula (Alexia)Leach in Gray, 1847
  • KochiaPallary, 1900 (Invalid: junior homonym of KochiaFrech, 1891 [Bivalvia])
  • NealexiaWenz, 1920
  • Ovatella (Alexia)Leach in Gray, 1847
  • Ovatella (Myosotella)Monterosato, 1906
  • Tralia (Alexia)Leach, 1847
  • VolatelaStarobogatov, 1993

Myosotella is a European genus or subgenus (of Ovatella ) of small, salt marsh snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Pythiinae of the family Ellobiidae. [2]

Contents

It feeds on algae growing on the rocks in a stream.

Species

Species within the genus Myosotella include:

Species brought into synonymy

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References

  1. Monterosato T. A. di (1906). "Articolo sulle Auriculidae, Assiminidae [sic] e Truncatellidae dei mari d'Europa". Il Naturalista Siciliano 18: 125-130. Palermo. page 126.
  2. 1 2 MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Myosotella Monterosato, 1906. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137924 on 2021-03-28