Skenella

Skenella is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cingulopsidae.[1]

Skenella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Cingulopsoidea
Family:	Cingulopsidae
Genus:	Skenella Martens, E.C. von & G. Pfeffer, 1886
Type species
Skenella georgiana Pfeffer, G. in Martens, E.C. von & G. Pfeffer, 1886
Synonyms[1]
Eatoniopsis Thiele, 1912 Rufodardanula Ponder, 1965 Skenella (Boogina) Thiele, 1913 · accepted, alternate representation Skenella (Rufodardanula) Ponder, 1965 · accepted, alternate representation Skenella (Skenella) Pfeffer, 1886· accepted, alternate representation

Species

Species within the genus Skenella include:[1]

• Skenella castanea (Laseron, 1950)
• Skenella conica (Kay, 1979)
• Skenella edwardiensis (Watson, 1886)
• Skenella georgiana Pfeffer, 1886[2]
• Skenella hallae Ponder & Worsfold, 1994
• Skenella paludinoides (Smith, 1902)[3]
• Skenella pfefferi Suter, 1909
• Skenella ponderi (Kay, 1979)
• Skenella porcellana (Ponder & Yoo, 1980)
• Skenella sinapi (Watson, 1886)
• Skenella spadix (Ponder, 1965)
• Skenella translucida (Ponder & Yoo, 1980)
• Skenella umbilicata Ponder, 1983[4]
• Skenella wareni Ponder & Worsfold, 1994[5]
• Skenella westralis (Ponder & Yoo, 1980)

Species brought into synonymy

• Skenella minima Thiele, 1925: synonym of Eatoniella minima (Thiele, 1925)

References

1. Skenella Pfeffer, 1886. WoRMS (2009). Skenella Pfeffer, 1886. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=196942 on 19 April 2011 .
2. Skenella georgiana Pfeffer, 1886. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 June 2010.
3. Skenella paludinoides (Smith, 1902). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 June 2010.
4. Skenella umbilicata Ponder, 1983. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 June 2010.
5. Skenella wareni Ponder & Worsfold, 1994. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 June 2010.

• A review of the genera of the Cingulopsidae with a revision of the Australian and tropical Indo-Pacific species (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Prosobranchia). Records of the Australian Museum, 33(1) 1980: 1-88
• Ponder, W. F. (1983) Rissoaform gastropods from the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic: the Eatoniellidae, Rissoidae, Barleeidae, Cingulopsidae, Orbitestellidae and Rissoellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Signy Island, South Orkney Islands, with a review of the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic (excluding southern South America and the New Zealand sub-Antarctic islands) species. British Antarctic Survey, Scientific Reports 108: 1-96