Zalipais

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Zalipais
Temporal range: Lower Pliocene to Recent
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Drawing with two views of a shell of Zalipais inscripta
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Skeneidae
Genus:Zalipais
Iredale, 1915
Type species
Cyclostrema lissumSuter, H., 1908
Species

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Zalipais is a genus of minute sea snails or micromollusks, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Skeneidae. [1]

A genus is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus.

Sea snail common name for snails that normally live in saltwater

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Micromollusk

A micromollusk is a shelled mollusk which is extremely small, even at full adult size. The word is usually, but not exclusively, applied to marine mollusks, although in addition, numerous species of land snails and freshwater mollusks also reach adult size at very small dimensions.

Species

Species within the genus Zalipais include:

Zalipais benthicola is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Skeneidae.

Arthur William Baden Powell was a New Zealand malacologist, naturalist and palaeontologist, a major influence in the study and classification of New Zealand molluscs through much of the 20th century. He was known to his friends and family by his third name, "Baden".

Zalipais bruniense is a species of microscopic sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Skeneidae.

Species brought into synonymy
<i>Zalipais inscripta</i> species of mollusc

Zalipais inscripta is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Skeneidae.

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References

  1. ↑ Rosenberg, G. (2012). Zalipais Iredale, 1915. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=598342 on 2012-09-08
  2. ↑ Australian Faunal Directory: Zalipais bruniense

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