| Tegula | |
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| A live individual of Tegula pulligo in situ | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Tegulidae |
| Genus: | Tegula Lesson, 1835 [1] |
| Type species | |
| Tegula elegans Lesson, 1832 | |
| Synonyms [2] | |
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Tegula is a genus of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Tegulidae. [2]
The function of the heart in Tegula snails may have a critical importance for their temperature tolerance. [3]
Species within the genus Tegula include:
Haustrum is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Haustrinae of the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
Trimusculus is a genus of medium-sized air-breathing sea snails or false limpets, marine pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Trimusculidae.
Batillaria is a genus of small salt marsh or mudflat snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Batillariidae, the horn snails.
Liotiidae is a family of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Vetigastropoda.
Crepidula, commonly known as the slipper snails, slipper limpets, or slipper shells, is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Calyptraeidae. This family includes the slipper snails (Crepidula), hat snails (Calyptraea), spiny slipper snails (Bostrycapulus), and cup-and-saucer snails (Crucibulum) as well as Crepipatella, Siphopatella, Grandicrepidula, and Maoricrypta.
Bittium is a genus of very small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cerithiidae, the horn snails.
Heleobia is a genus of small freshwater and brackish water snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Cochliopidae and the superfamily Truncatelloidea.
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.
Patella is a genus of sea snails with gills, typical true limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Patellidae, the true limpets.
Hemitoma is a genus of slit limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.
Cerithidea is a genus of medium-sized sea snails or mud snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Potamididae, the horn snails.
Pyramidella is a genus of minute to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusk in the subfamily Pyramidellinae of the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.
Chlorostoma is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Tegulidae.
Tricornis is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Strombidae, the true conchs.
Amathina is a genus of small sea snails, marine heterobranch gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family Amathinidae.
Tegula corvus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tegulidae.
Tegula panamensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tegulidae.
Tegula puntagordana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tegulidae.
Tegula snodgrassi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tegulidae.
Tegulidae is a family of small to large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Trochoidea.
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