Mammilla (gastropod)

Mammilla
Five views of a shell of Mammilla sebae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Naticoidea
Family:	Naticidae
Genus:	Mammilla Schumacher, 1817
Synonyms
Mamilla (incorrect spelling of generic name) Naticaria Swainson, 1840 Ruma Gray, 1847

Mammilla is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Naticidae, the moon snails.^[1]

Species

Species within the genus Mamilla include:

• Mammilla fibrosa (Gray, 1850)
• Mammilla kurodai (Iw. Taki, 1944)
• Mammilla mammata (Röding, 1798)
• Mammilla maura (Lamarck, 1816)
• Mammilla melanostoma (Gmelin, 1791)^[2]
• Mammilla melanostomoides (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832)
• Mammilla priamus (Récluz, 1844)
• Mammilla sebae (Récluz, 1844)
• Mammilla simiae (Deshayes, 1848)^[3]
• Mammilla syrphetodes (Kilburn, 1976)

Species brought into synonymy

• Mammilla fasciata Schumacher, 1817: synonym of Mammilla mammata (Röding, 1798)
• Mammilla plumatilis Iredale, 1936: synonym of Mammilla fibrosa (Gray, 1850)
• Mammilla propesimiae Iredale, 1929: synonym of Mammilla simiae (Deshayes, 1838)

Further investigation needed

• Mammilla bernardii (Récluz, 1851) (species inquirenda)

References

1. Mammilla Schumacher, 1817 . WoRMS (2009). Mammilla. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=568304 on 12 July 2012.
2. Mammilla melanostoma (Gmelin, 1791).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 June 2010.
3. Mammilla simiae (Deshayes, 1848).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 June 2010.

• Torigoe K. & Inaba A. (2011) Revision on the classification of Recent Naticidae. Bulletin of the Nishinomiya Shell Museum 7: 133 + 15 pp., 4 pls.

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