Circulus (gastropod)

Circulus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha

Superfamily: Truncatelloidea
Family: Tornidae
Genus: Circulus
Jeffreys, 1865
Type species
Delphinula duminyi Requien, 1848
Species

See text

Synonyms[1]
  • Elachorbis Iredale, 1915
  • Pygmaeorota Kuroda & Habe, 1954
  • Circlotoma Laseron, 1958
  • Soyorota Habe, 1961

Circulus is a genus of very small and minute sea snails with an operculum, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Tornidae.

Species

According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), the following species with valid names are included within the genus Circulus [2]

The Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database also mentions the following species with names in current use :[1]

Species brought into synonymy

References

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