Minolia

Minolia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea (superfamily)
Family: Solariellidae
Genus: Minolia
A. Adams, 1860
Type species
Minolia punctata Adams, A., 1860
Species

See text

Synonyms[1]

Monilia

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

A. Adams named the genus from Mino-Sima, the little island near Niphon (Japan) [2] Minolia was in older textbooks regarded as a subgenus of Margarita Leach, 1819 (itself now a synonym of Margarites Gray, 1847).

Description

The thin, delicate, smooth shell is depressed and widely umbilicated. The whorls are rounded or angulated. The spire is depressed. The sculpture is finely decussated. The aperture is circular. The outer lip and columella thin, simple, acute. The umbilicus is simple and contains no spiral, callous internal funicle or rib.[3]

Distribution

These marine species belong to the Indian Ocean, the western and southwestern Pacific Ocean.

Species

Species within the genus Minolia include:

Species mentioned in the Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database
[20]
Species brought into synonymy

References

  1. 1 2 Minolia A. Adams, 1860.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 February 2012.
  2. Various authors (1860) The Annals and magazine of natural history 3rd ser. v. 6
  3. Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
  4. Minolia caifassii Carmagna, 1888.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 22 April 2010.
  5. S. Williams: Minolia ceraunia
  6. Minolia condei Poppe, Tagaro & Dekker, 2006.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 22 April 2010.
  7. S. Williams: Minolia edithae
  8. S. Williams: Minolia gilvosplendens
  9. S. Williams: Minolia glaucophaos
  10. S. Williams Minolia malcolmia
  11. S. Williams: Minolia pompiliodes
  12. S. Williams: Minolia pseudobscura
  13. S. Williams: Minolia rotundata
  14. S. Williams: MInolia sakya
  15. S. Williams: Minolia semireticulata
  16. S. Williams: Minolia strigata
  17. Minolia singaporensis (Pilsbry, 1889).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 22 April 2010.
  18. S. Williams: Minolia subangulata
  19. Minolia tabakotanii Poppe, Tagaro & Dekker, 2006.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 22 April 2010.
  20. OBIS: Minolia
  21. H. Pilsbry, Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
  22. Minolia gradata G.B. Sowerby III, 1895.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 22 April 2010.
  23. Minolia segersi Poppe, Tagaro & Dekker, 2006.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 22 April 2010.
  24. Minolia variegata Odhner, 1919.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 22 April 2010.

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