Sphaerocylichna
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Sphaerocylichna is a genus
of deepsea snail
s or bubble snails, marine
opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Cylichnidae
, the canoe bubbles or chalice bubble snails.
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 deepsea 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 or bubble snails, 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...
opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Cylichnidae
Cylichnidae
Cylichnidae, common name the "chalice bubble snails" or "canoe bubble snails" is a family of sea snails or bubble snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Philinoidea.- 2005 taxonomy :...
, the canoe bubbles or chalice bubble snails.
Species
Species within the genus Sphaerocylichna include:- Sphaerocylichna incommoda