Eratoena
Encyclopedia
Eratoena is a genus
of small sea snail
s, marine
gastropod molluscs in the family
Triviidae
, the trivias.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of small sea snail
Snail
Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
s, marine
Marine (ocean)
Marine is an umbrella term. As an adjective it is usually applicable to things relating to the sea or ocean, such as marine biology, marine ecology and marine geology...
gastropod molluscs in the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Triviidae
Triviidae
Triviidae is a taxonomic family of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha.-Taxonomy:The following subfamilies were recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi in 2005:*Eratoinae Gill, 1871**tribe Eratoini Gill, 1871...
, the trivias.
Species
Species within the genus Eratoena include :- Eratoena capensis (Schilder, 1933)
- Eratoena corrugata (Hinds, 1844)
- Eratoena gourgueti Fehse, 2010
- Eratoena grata (T. Cossignani & V. Cossignani, 1997)
- Eratoena nana (Sowerby, 1859)
- Eratoena pagoboi (T. Cossignani & V. Cossignani, 1997)
- Eratoena schmeltziana (Crosse, 1867)
- Eratoena septentrionalis (Cate, 1977)
- Eratoena smithi (Schilder, 1933)
- Eratoena sulcifera (Gray in G.B. Sowerby I, 1832)