Zethalia

Zethalia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[1]

Zethalia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Zethalia
Finlay, 1926
Type species
Zethalia zelandica Hombron, J.B. & C.H. Jacquinot, 1855
Synonyms

Ethaliopsis Cossmann, 1918 (Invalid as preoccupied by Schepmann, 1908)

Species

Species within the genus Zethalia include:[1]

  • Zethalia coronata Marwick, 1948
  • Zethalia russelli Marwick, 1965
  • Zethalia zelandica (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1855)

References

  1. Bouchet, P. (2012). Zethalia Finlay, 1926. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=512315 on 2012-11-23
  • Trew, A., 1984. The Melvill-Tomlin Collection. Part 30. Trochacea. Handlists of the Molluscan Collections in the Department of Zoology, National Museum of Wales.
  • Vaught, K. C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. Melbourne, Florida : American Malacologists. xii + 189 pp.


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