Solariella

Solariella is a genus of small to minute sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Solariellidae within the superfamily Trochoidea, the top snails, turban snails and their allies.

Solariella
A shell of Solariella sanjuanensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Solariellidae
Genus: Solariella
S. Wood, 1842[1]
Type species
† Solariella maculata Wood, 1842
Synonyms[2]
  • Machaeroplax Friele, 1877
  • Margarita (Solariella) S. Wood, 1842
  • † Solariella (Periaulax) Cossmann, 1888 · accepted, alternate representation
  • Trochus (Solariella) S. Wood, 1842
  • Zeminolia Finlay, 1926

This genus was founded by S. Wood for an English fossil trochid, conical in form, with tubular whorls and a deep umbilicus, its margin crenulated.

Species

According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), the following species with valid names are included within the genus Solariella:[2]

Species brought into synonymy

Incertae sedis
    • Solariella mutabilis var laevior Schepman, 1908
    • Solariella mutabilis var. plicifera Schepman, 1908
Species inquirenda
  • Solariella fuscomaculata G.B. Sowerby, 1892
  • Solariella humillima Thiele, 1925

The Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database also includes the following species with names in current use:[4]

Subgenus Solariella Wood, 1842
  • Solariella bellula Melvill & Standen
  • Solariella deliciosa Preston, 1916
  • Solariella dulcissima Preston, 1908

Other species within the genus Solariella include:[5][6]

  • Solariella laevis Friele, 1886 - smooth solarelle
  • Solariella maculata S. V. Wood, 1842
  • Solariella margaritus
  • Solariella scabriuscula (Dall, 1881)

References
  1. Wood, S. (1842). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9: 531.
  2. WoRMS: Solariella; accessed: 22 May 2012
  3. Kiel S. (2003) New taxonomic data for the gastropod fauna of the Umzamba Formation (Santonian–Campanian, South Africa); Cretaceous Research 24 (2003) 449–475
  4. OBIS: Solariella
  5. "Solariella". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
  6. Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
  • Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
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