Folinella
Folinella is a genus of minute sea snails, pyramidellid gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Pyramidellidae within the tribe Chrysallidini.[1]
| Folinella | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Subcohort: | Panpulmonata |
| Superfamily: | Pyramidelloidea |
| Family: | Pyramidellidae |
| Genus: | Folinella Dall & Bartsch, 1904 |
| Type species | |
| Amoura anguliferens De Folin. | |
| Synonyms | |
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Ividella Dall & Bartsch, 1909 | |
Description
The whorls of the teleoconch are sculptured similarly throughout. The axial ribs are rounded. The spiral markings consist of two tumid ridges, one at the periphery and one at the summit of the whorls; with many striations on the base. .[2]
Species
- Folinella excavata (Phillippi, 1836)
- Folinella ghisottii van Aartsen, 1984
- Folinella holthuisi van Aartsen, Gittenberger E. & Goud, 1998
- Folinella moolenbeeki van Aartsen, Gittenberger E. & Goud, 1998
- Folinella quinquecincta (Carpenter, 1856)
- Folinella robertsoni (Altena, 1975)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Folinella navisa (Dall & Bartsch, 1907): synonym of Chrysallida navisa (Dall & Bartsch, 1907)
References
- Gofas, S. (2011). Folinella. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=195918 on 2012-01-04
- William Healy Dall and Paul Bartsch , "A Monograph of West American Pyramidellid Mollusks" , Smithsonian Institution, p. 13:1909
- Dall W. H. & Bartsch P. (1904). Synopsis of the genera, subgenera and sections of the family Pyramidellidae. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 17: 1-16
- Pimenta, Alexandre D., f. N. Santos, and Ricardo S. Absalão. 2008. Review of the genera Ividia, Folinella, Menestho, Pseudoscilla, Tryptichus and Peristichia (Gastropoda, Pyramidellidae) from Brazil, with descriptions of four new species. The Veliger 50: 171-184.
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