Lamellaria
Encyclopedia
Lamellaria is a genus
of small slug-like sea snail
s, marine
gastropod molluscs in the family
Velutinidae
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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 slug-like 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...
Velutinidae
Velutinidae
Velutinidae is a family of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha.- Taxonomy :The following two subfamilies have been recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi :* subfamily Velutininae J. E...
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Species
Species within the genus Lamellaria include:- Lamellaria cerebroidesLamellaria cerebroidesLamellaria cerebroides is a species of small, slug-like sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Velutinidae.-References:* Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1...
HuttonFrederick Wollaston HuttonCaptain Frederick Wollaston Hutton, FRS, was an English scientist who applied the theory of natural selection to explain the origins and nature of the natural history of New Zealand.- Biography :...
, 1883 - Lamellaria diegoensis DallW. H. DallWilliam Healey Dall was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska...
, 1885 - San Diego lamellaria - Lamellaria digueti Rochebrune, 1895
- Lamellaria koto Schwengel, 1944
- Lamellaria latens
- Lamellaria leucosphaera Schwengel, 1942 - white-ball lamellaria
- Lamellaria ophioneLamellaria ophioneLamellaria ophione is a species of small, slug-like sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Velutinidae.-References:* Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1...
Gray, 1850 - Lamellaria pellucida Verrill, 1880 - translucent lamellaria
- Lamellaria perspicua (Linnaeus, 1758) - transparent lamellaria
- Lamellaria rhombica DallW. H. DallWilliam Healey Dall was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska...
, 1871 - Lamellaria stearnsii (DallW. H. DallWilliam Healey Dall was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska...
, 1871)