Minolops
| Minolops | |
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| Drawing of a shell of Minolops arata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Clade: | Vetigastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea (superfamily) |
| Family: | Solariellidae |
| Genus: | Minolops Iredale, 1929 |
| Type species | |
| Minolia emendata Iredale, 1924 | |
Minolops is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Solariellidae within the superfamily Trochoidea, the top snails, turban snails and their allies.[1]
B.A. Marshall (1999) thought that Minolops may be synonymous with Spectamen [2]
Species
Species within the genus Minolops include:[1]
- Minolops arata Hedley, 1903
- Minolops casta (Nevill & Nevill, 1874) [3]
- Minolops cinerea (Preston, 1909)
- Minolops corallina (Cotton & Godfrey, 1935)
- Minolops gertruda Iredale, 1936
- Minolops pulcherrima Angas, 1869
- Minolops rosulenta (Watson, 1883)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Minolops cincta (Cotton, B.C. & F.K. Godfrey, 1938): synonym of Minolia cincta (Cotton & Godfrey, 1938)
- Minolops emendata (Iredale, 1924): synonym of Minolops pulcherrima emendata (Iredale, 1924)
References
- 1 2 Bieler, R. (2012). Minolops Iredale, 1929. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=694623 on 2012-12-03
- ↑ Marshall, B. A. 1999. A revision of the recent Solariellinae (Gastropoda: Trochoidea) of the New Zealand region. Nautilus 113:4–42
- ↑ S. Williams: Minolops casta
- Iredale, 1929 Records of the Australian Museum, 17(4): 169
External links
| External identifiers for Minolops | |
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| WoRMS | 694623 |
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