Balanetta

Balanetta is a genus of small, often colorful, sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the taxonomic family of the margin shells (Marginellidae).[1]

Balanetta
Shell of Balanetta baylii (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Volutoidea
Family:	Marginellidae
Genus:	Balanetta Jousseaume, 1875
Species
See text
Synonyms
Cancellarioidea Forbes & Hanley, 1851

Species

• Balanetta amydrozona (Melvill, 1906)
• Balanetta baylii Jousseaume, 1875
• Balanetta cylichnella (May, 1917)
• Balanetta pisum (Reeve, 1865)
• Balanetta triptycta Le Renard & van Nieulande, 1985

Species brought into synonymy

• Balanetta baylei Jousseaume, 1875: synonym of Balanetta baylii Jousseaume, 1875 (alternative original spelling; spelling baylii selected by First Reviser choice by Tomlin (1917))
• Balanetta decaryi Bavay, 1920: synonym of Ovaginella decaryi (Bavay, 1920)
• Balanetta ovulum (G.B. Sowerby, 1846): synonym of Ovaginella ovulum (G.B. Sowerby, 1846)

References

1. WoRMS (2010). Balanetta Jousseaume, 1875. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=465260 on 2010-12-04

• Jousseaume, F., 1875. Coquilles de la famille des marginelles, Monographie. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie Pure et Appliquée 3(3): 164-278
• Cossignani T. (2006). Marginellidae & Cystiscidae of the World. L'Informatore Piceno. 408pp.