Glabella (gastropod)

Glabella
Two views of a shell of Glabella lucani
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Marginellidae
Subfamily: Marginellinae
Genus: Glabella
Swainson, 1840
Species

See text

Synonyms:[1]
  • Faba P. Fischer, 1883
  • Marginella (Glabella) Swainson, 1840
  • Phoenospira Petit, 1851

Glabella is a genus of small tropical and warm-water sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Marginellidae, the margin snails.[1]

Taxonomy

It is debatable whether it is justified to distinguish this genus from Marginella s. str. without a comprehensive phylogenetic hypothesis of the family. However the two genera cannot be objective synonyms because Marginella glabella (Linnaeus, 1758) is not one of the species originally included in Glabella.

Species

According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), the following species with valid names are included within the genus Glabella :[2]

  • Glabella adansoni Kiener, 1834
  • Glabella ansonae Clover, 1976
  • Glabella bellii G.B. Sowerby II, 1846
  • Glabella bifasciata (Lamarck, 1822)
  • Glabella davisiana Marrat, 1877
  • Glabella denticulata Link, 1807
  • Glabella faba (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Glabella fumigata (Gofas & Fernandes, 1994)
  • Glabella harpaeformis G.B. Sowerby II, 1846
  • Glabella henrikasi (Bozzetti, 1995)
  • Glabella lucani (Jousseaume, 1884)
  • Glabella mirabilis H. Adams, 1869
  • Glabella mozambicana Boyer, 2014
  • Glabella nodata (Hinds, 1844)
  • Glabella obtusa G.B. Sowerby II, 1846
  • Glabella omanensis Boyer, 2014
  • Glabella pseudofaba G.B. Sowerby II, 1846
  • Glabella reeveana Petit, 1851
  • Glabella rosadoi Kilburn, 1994
  • Glabella rotunda Boyer, 2014
  • Glabella tyermani (Marrat, 1876)
  • Glabella xicoi (Boyer, Ryall & Wakefield, 1999)
  • Glabella youngi Kilburn, 1977
Species brought into synonymy
  • Glabella arenaria Mörch, 1852: synonym of Glabella denticulata (Link, 1807)
  • Glabella ferreirai Alves, 1996: synonym of Glabella mozambicana Boyer, 2014

References

  1. 1 2 Glabella Swainson, 1840.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 7 September 2010.
  2. ↑ WoRMS : Glabella; accessed : 7 September 2010


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