Biology:Mauroceras

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Short description: Genus of gastropods

Mauroceras
Meioceras kajiyamai (MNHN-IM-2014-4153).jpeg
Shell of Mauroceras kajiyamai (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Truncatelloidea
Family: Caecidae
Genus: Mauroceras
Vannozzi, 2019
Type species
Meioceras kajiyamai Habe, 1963

Mauroceras is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Caecidae.[1]

Species

  • Mauroceras amamiense (Habe, 1978)
  • Mauroceras boucheti (Pizzini & Raines, 2011)
  • Mauroceras kajiyamai (Habe, 1963)
  • Mauroceras legumen (Hedley, 1899)
  • Mauroceras maestratii (Pizzini, Raines & Vannozzi, 2013)
  • Mauroceras rhinoceros (Pizzini, Raines & Vannozzi, 2013)
  • Mauroceras sandwichense (de Folin, 1881)
  • Mauroceras serratum (Vannozzi, 2017)

References

  1. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Mauroceras Vannozzi, 2019. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1356167 on 2021-07-08
  • Vannozzi A. (2019). Mauroceras, a new genus for Indo-West Pacific species hitherto assigned to Meioceras (Gastropoda: Caecidae). Bollettino Malacologico. 55(1): 55–61.

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q105488451 entry