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Solariella

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Solariella
A shell of Solariella sanjuanensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Solariellidae
Genus: Solariella
S. Wood, 1842[1]
Type species
Solariella maculata Wood, 1842
Synonyms[2]
  • Machaeroplax Friele, 1877
  • Margarita (Solariella) S. Wood, 1842
  • Minolia (Machaeroplax) Friele, 1877
  • Monilea (Solariella) S.V. Wood, 1840 ·
  • Solariella (Periaulax) Cossmann, 1888 · accepted, alternate representation
  • Trochus (Solariella) S. Wood, 1842

Solariella is a genus of small to minute sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Solariellidae within the superfamily Trochoidea, the top snails, turban snails and their allies.[2]

This genus was founded by S. Wood for an English fossil trochid, conical in form, with tubular whorls and a deep umbilicus, its margin crenulated.

Species

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

Species brought into synonymy

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Incertae sedis
    • Solariella mutabilis var laevior Schepman, 1908
    • Solariella mutabilis var. plicifera Schepman, 1908
Species inquirenda
  • Solariella fuscomaculata G.B. Sowerby, 1892
  • Solariella humillima Thiele, 1925
  • Solariella turritellina Ancey, 1881

The Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database also includes the following species with names in current use:[4]

Subgenus Solariella Wood, 1842

Other species within the genus Solariella include:[5][6]

References

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  1. ^ Wood, S. (1842). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9: 531.
  2. ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Solariella S. V. Wood, 1842. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138597 on 2022-06-17
  3. ^ Kiel S. (2003) New taxonomic data for the gastropod fauna of the Umzamba Formation (Santonian–Campanian, South Africa); Cretaceous Research 24 (2003) 449–475
  4. ^ OBIS: Solariella
  5. ^ "Solariella". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
  6. ^ Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
  • Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
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