- Menestho
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Menestho Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda (unranked): clade Heterobranchia
informal group Lower Heterobranchia
Superfamily: Pyramidelloidea Family: Pyramidellidae Subfamily: Odostomiinae Genus: Menestho
Möller, 1842Species See text
Menestho is a genus of very small sea snails, pyramidellid gastropod mollusks, or micromollusks. [1]
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Shell description
The original description by Möller (1842) is brief and in Latin: "Animal pede elongato, angusto; ore simplici, membrana linguali destituto; tentaculis brevioribus, crassiusculis, oculos perparvos ad basin internum ferentibus. Operculo pauco-spirato. Testa conico-turrita."
Life habits
Little is known about the biology of the members of this genus. As is true of most members of the Pyramidellidae sensu lato, they are most likely to be ectoparasites.
Species
Species within the genus Menestho include:
- Menestho albula (Fabricius, 1780) (Type species) (as Turbo albulus)
- Menestho beermanae Jong & Coomans, 1988
- Menestho diaphana (Jeffreys)
- Menestho exarata A. Adams, 1861
- Menestho hypocurta (Dall & Bartsch, 1909)
- Menestho truncatula (Odhner, 1915)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Menestho divisa (J. Adams, 1797): synonym of Ondina divisa (Adams J., 1797)
- Menestho tenuicula F. Nordsieck, 1972: synonym of Odostomia erjaveciana Brusina, 1869
References
- ^ Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2011). Menestho Möller, 1842. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138409 on 2011-11-07
- Möller, H.P.C. (1842). Index Molluscorum Groenlandiae. Hafniae. pp. 24 pp.
- 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
- Spencer, H.; Marshall. B. (2009). All Mollusca except Opisthobranchia. In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp
- Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp
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