Lodderia
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Lodderia is a genus of minute sea snails or micromolluscs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Skeneidae.[1] This genus belonged previously to the family Liotiidae.
Description
The shell has a depressed turbinate shape and a deep umbilicus. The sculpture consists of a number of spiral keels. The circular aperture is oblique and shows a prominent varix. The peristome is continuous. The white operculum is multispiral with a central nucleus.[2]
Species
Species within the genus Lodderia include:
- Lodderia coatsiana (Melvill & Standen, 1912)
- Lodderia eumorpha (Suter, 1908)
- Lodderia eumorpha cookiana (Dell, 1952)
- Lodderia eumorpha eumorpha (Suter, 1908)
- Lodderia iota (Powell, 1940)
- Lodderia lodderae Petterd, 1884
- † Lodderia mandulana C. Beets, 1984
- Lodderia novemcarinata (Melvill, 1906)
- Lodderia waitemata (Powell, 1940)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Lodderia virginiae (Jousseaume, 1872): synonym of Cyclostrema virginiae Jousseaume, 1872
References
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- ↑ Rosenberg, G. (2012). Lodderia. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=532002 on 2012-06-21
- ↑ Tate, R. 1899. A revision of the Australian Cyclostrematidae and Liotiidae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 23(2): 213-229
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- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 Template:ISBN
- GBIF