Opalia (gastropod)
Encyclopedia
Opalia is a taxonomic genus
of small sea snail
s, marine
gastropod mollusks in the family
Epitoniidae, commonly known as wentletraps.
(WoRMS), the following species with a valid name are included within the genus Opalia :
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)
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gastropod mollusks 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...
Epitoniidae, commonly known as wentletraps.
Species
According to the World Register of Marine SpeciesWorld Register of Marine Species
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(WoRMS), the following species with a valid name are included within the genus Opalia :
- Opalia abbotti Clench & Turner, 1952 (after R. Tucker AbbottR. Tucker AbbottRobert Tucker Abbott was an American conchologist and malacologist . He was the author of more than 30 books on malacology, which have been translated into many languages....
) - Opalia aglaia (Bartsch, 1915)
- Opalia ahiparana (A. W. B. Powell, 1930)
- Opalia alba (de Boury, 1911)
- Opalia antarctica (E. A. Smith, 1907)
- Opalia apostolorum (Iredale, 1936)
- Opalia attenuata (Pease, 1860)
- Opalia aurifila (Dall, 1889)
- Opalia australis (Lamarck, 1822)
- Opalia ballinensis (E. A. Smith, 1891)
- Opalia bardeyi (Jousseaume, 1912)
- Opalia bicarinata (G. B. Sowerby II, 1844)
- Opalia borealis Keep, 1881
- Opalia burchorum DuShane, 1988
- Opalia burryi Clench & Turner, 1950
- Opalia cerigottana Sturany, 1896
- Opalia colimana Hertlein & Strong, 1951
- Opalia corolla (Melvill & Standen, 1903)
- Opalia coronata (Philippi, 1844)
- Opalia crassilabrum (Sowerby, 1844)
- Opalia crenata (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Opalia crenatoides Carpenter, 1864
- Opalia crystallina (Carpenter, 1864)
- Opalia diadema (G. B. Sowerby, 1832)
- Opalia dushaneae Garcia, 2004
- Opalia eolis Clench & Turner, 1950
- Opalia exopleura (Dall, 1917)
- Opalia felderi Garcia, 2004
- Opalia fortunata Bouchet & Warén, 1986
- Opalia funiculata (Carpenter, 1857)
- Opalia gaini Lamy, 1922
- Opalia garciai Kilburn, 1994
- Opalia gereti (de Boury, 1913)
- Opalia granosa (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
- Opalia granulosa de Boury, 1909
- Opalia grossicostata (Nyst, 1871)
- Opalia gruveli (de Boury)
- Opalia hellenica (Forbes, 1844)
- Opalia hidryma (Melvill, 1899)
- Opalia hotessieriana (d’Orbigny, 1842)
- Opalia infrequens (C. B. Adams, 1852)
- Opalia japonica (Okutani, 1964)
- Opalia koskinum (Hedley, 1909)
- Opalia leeana (A. E. Verrill, 1882)
- Opalia levis Nakayama, 2010
- Opalia longissima Garcia, 2004
- Opalia mammosa (Melvill & Standen, 1903)
- Opalia martis (Thiele, 1925)
- Opalia matajiroi (Kuroda, 1954)
- Opalia mauritanica Talavera, 1975
- Opalia megalodon Garcia, 2004
- Opalia methoria Kilburn, 1985
- Opalia mexicana Dall, 1908
- Opalia minervae (Thiele, 1925)
- Opalia monovaricosa (Kuroda & Habe, 1961)
- Opalia montereyensis (Dall, 1907)
- Opalia morchiana (Dall, 1889)
- Opalia mormulaeformis (Masahito, Kuroda & Habe, 1971)
- Opalia neocaledonica Garcia, 2004
- Opalia pacoi Engl, 2002
- Opalia paucisculpta Bozzetti, 2007
- Opalia paulula DuShane, 1974
- Opalia pseudoescalaris (Melvill & Standen, 1901)
- Opalia pumilio (Libassi, 1859)
- Opalia punctata (Thiele, 1925)
- Opalia pupipunctata (de Boury, 1911)
- Opalia sanjuanensis (Lowe, 1932)
- Opalia soror (Odhner, 1919)
- Opalia spongiosa Carpenter, 1866
- Opalia subcrassa (Cotton & Godfrey, 1938)
- Opalia sumatrensis (Thiele, 1925)
- Opalia texta (E. A. Smith, 1903)
- Opalia thorsenae Garcia, 2004
- Opalia turnerae Garcia, 2004
- Opalia velumnuptialis Garcia, 2004
- Opalia wareni Garcia, 2004
- Opalia zelandica Finlay, 1930