Charisma (gastropod)

Charisma
Original image of a shell of Charisma compacta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea (superfamily)
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Charisma
Hedley, 1915
Type species
Charisma compacta Hedley, C., 1915
Synonyms[1]
  • Cavotera Laseron, 1954
  • Cavostella Laseron, 1954

Charisma (gastropod) is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[2]

Description

A genus related to Liotia, but without a varix to the outer lip. The species are few-whorled and spirally sculptured. Their umbilicus has an internal funicle. The operculum is corneous, concave, multispiral, with a spiral frilled lamella.[3]

Species

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External identifiers for Charisma (gastropod)
ITIS 331175
WoRMS 512296
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