Zegalerus is a genus

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 sea snail

Sea snail

Sea snail is a common name for those snails that normally live in saltwater, marine gastropod molluscs....

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...

 Calyptraeidae

Calyptraeidae

Calyptraeidae, common name the slipper snails or slipper limpets, cup-and-saucer snails, and Chinese hat snails are a family of small to medium-sized marine prosobranch gastropods...

, commonly known as slipper snails, cup-and-saucer shells, and Chinese hat shells.

This genus has been declared a synonym of the genus Sigapatella

Sigapatella

Sigapatella is a genus of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Calyptraeidae, the slipper snails, Chinese hat snails, and cup-and-saucer snails. -Taxonomy:...

Lesson, 1831

Species

Species within the genus Zegalerus include:

• Zegalerus coniculus
• Zegalerus peramplus

Species brought into synonymy:

• Zegalerus crater Finlay
  Harold John Finlay
  Harold John Finlay was a New Zealand palaeontologist and conchologist. He was born in Comilla, India , on 22 March 1901....
  
  , 1927; synonym of Sigapatella novaezelandiae
  Sigapatella novaezelandiae
  Sigapatella novaezelandiae, common name the circular slipper limpet, is a species of medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod molluscs in the family Calyptraeidae.-Description:...
  
  Lesson, 1830
• Zegalerus terraenovae (Peile, 1924): synonym of Sigapatella terraenovae
  Sigapatella terraenovae
  Sigapatella terraenovae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Calyptraeidae.- References :* Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1...
  
  (Peile, 1924)
• Zegalerus tenuis (Gray, 1867): synonym of Sigapatella tenuis (Gray, 1867)

Species inquerenda

• Zegalerus tumens Finlay, 1930

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