Lepsiella

Taxobox
name = "Lepsiella"


image_caption = The oyster borer
"Lepsiella scobina scobina"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
infraclassis = Apogastropoda
superordo = Caenogastropoda
ordo = Sorbeoconcha
infraordo = Neogastropoda
superfamilia = Muricoidea
familia = Muricidae
subfamilia = Ocenebrinae
genus = "Lepsiella"
genus_authority = Iredale, 1912
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Lepsiella" is a taxonomic genus of small predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

Adult shells of the species in this genus are usually a little less than 2 cm in length. They look somewhat like the northern Atlantic species "Nucella lapillus".

pecies within the genus "Lepsiella"

* "Lepsiella flindersi" (Adams & Angas, 1863)
* "Lepsiella paivae" (Crosse, 1864)
* "Lepsiella reticulata" (Blainville, 1832)
* "Lepsiella scobina albomarginata" (Deshayes, 1839)
* "Lepsiella scobina scobina" (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)
* "Lepsiella vinosa" (Lamarck, 1822)

References

* Powell A. W. B., "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1