Glabella (gastropod)
Encyclopedia
Glabella is a genus
of small tropical and warm-water sea snail
s, marine
gastropod molluscs in the family
Marginellidae
, the margin snails.
(WoRMS), the following species with valid names are included within the genus Glabella :
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 tropical and warm-water 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...
Marginellidae
Marginellidae
Marginellidae, or the margin shells, are a taxonomic family of small, often colorful, sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Neogastropoda.- Taxonomy :...
, the margin snails.
Species
According to the World Register of Marine SpeciesWorld Register of Marine Species
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(WoRMS), the following species with valid names are included within the genus Glabella :
- Glabella adansoni Kiener, 1834
- Glabella ansonae Clover, 1976
- Glabella arenaria Mörch, 1852
- Glabella bellii G.B. Sowerby, 1846
- Glabella bifasciata (Lamarck, 1822)
- Glabella davisiana Marrat, 1877
- Glabella denticulata Link, 1807
- Glabella faba (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Glabella ferreirai Alves, 1996
- Glabella fumigata (Gofas & Fernandes, 1994)
- Glabella harpaeformis G.B. Sowerby, 1846
- Glabella lucani (Jousseaume, 1884)
- Glabella mirabilis H. Adams, 1869
- Glabella nodata (Hinds, 1844)
- Glabella obtusa G.B. Sowerby, 1846
- Glabella pseudofaba G.B. Sowerby, 1846
- Glabella reeveana Petit, 1851
- Glabella rosadoi Kilburn, 1994
- Glabella tyermaniGlabella tyermaniGlabella tyermani is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Marginellidae, the margin snails.-Description:The shell size varies between 4.5 mm and 16 mm-Distribution:...
(Marrat, 1876) - Glabella xicoi (Boyer, Ryall & Wakefield, 1999)
- Glabella youngi Kilburn, 1977