Recluzia
Encyclopedia
Recluzia is a genus
of small to medium-sized pelagic or planktonic sea snail
s, marine
gastropod molluscs in the family
Janthinidae
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Species brought into synonymy :
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 to medium-sized pelagic or planktonic 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 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...
Janthinidae
Janthinidae
Janthinidae, common name the purple snails or violet snails, are a family of pelagic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the informal group Ptenoglossa of the clade Hypsogastropoda....
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Species
- Recluzia annamitica Wattebled, 1886
- Recluzia jehennei Petit, 1853
- Recluzia palmeri (Dall, 1871)
- Recluzia rollandiana Petit de la Saussaye, 1853
Species brought into synonymy :
- Recluzia insignis Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932 : synonym of Alora gouldii (A. Adams, 1857)