Pseudostomatella

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Pseudostomatella
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Apertural view of a shell of Pseudostomatella elegans
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Subfamily: Stomatellinae
Genus: Pseudostomatella
Thiele, 1921
Type species
Turbo papyraceus
Gmelin, 1791

Pseudostomatella is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Stomatellinae of the family Trochidae, the top snails. [1]

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Distribution

This marine genus has a wide distribution. The species occur in the Central and East Indian Ocean, Indo-Malaysia and off Australia

Species

Species within the genus Pseudostomatella include: [1]

Species brought into synonymy
Taxa inquirenda

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