Microgaza

Microgaza
Drawing of a shell of Microgaza rotella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea (superfamily)
Family: Solariellidae
Genus: Microgaza
Dall, 1881
Type species
Microgaza rotella rotella Dall, W.H., 1881
Species

See text

Synonyms

Solariella (Microgaza) Dall, 1881

Microgaza is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Solariellidae.[1]

Description

The flattened shell is rotelliform, resembling a species from the genus Gaza without the reflected lip or umbilical callus. The shell is brilliantly nacreous when fresh. It has a distinctly scalariform umbilicus.[2]

Species

Species within the genus Microgaza include:

Species brought into synonymy

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