Lirularia

Lirularia is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[2]

Lirularia
Drawing of a shell of Lirularia parcipicta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Lirularia
Dall, 1909[1]
Type species
Lirularia lirulata
Carpenter, P.P., 1864

Species

Species within the genus Lirularia include:

Species brought into synonymy
  • Lirularia minima (Golikov, in Golikov & Scarlato, 1967): synonym of Conotalopia minima (Golikov, 1967)

References

  1. Dall (1909). Prof. Pap. U.S. geol. Surv., No. 59: 98.
  2. Lirularia Dall, 1909 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 August 2012.
  • Rubio F. & Rolán E. 1997. Una nueva especie de Lirularia (Gastropoda: Trochidae) de las islas de São Tomé y Príncipe. Iberus 15 (1): 23-29
  • Williams S.T., Karube S. & Ozawa T. (2008) Molecular systematics of Vetigastropoda: Trochidae, Turbinidae and Trochoidea redefined. Zoologica Scripta 37: 483–506


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