Atlanta (genus)

Atlanta (genus)

Taxobox
name = "Atlanta"


image_caption = Atlanta anatomy
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Caenogastropoda
ordo = Sorbeoconcha
subordo = Hypsogastropoda
infraordo = Littorinimorpha
superfamilia = Carinarioidea
familia = Atlantidae
genus = "Atlanta"
genus_authority = Lesueur, 1817
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Atlanta" is a genus of pelagic marine gastropod molluscs in the family Atlantidae. They are sometimes called heteropods.

The shells of the snails in this genus are small, seldom as much as 10 mm in width, fragile, transparent, spiral, of planorbid shape, compressed into a sharp peripheral flange. The animal is capable of retracting into its shell.

pecies

* "Atlanta brunnea" J. E. Gray, 1850
* "Atlanta californiensis" Seapy and Richter, 1993
* "Atlanta gaudichaudi" Souleyet, 1852
* "Atlanta helicinoidea" J. E. Gray, 1850
* "Atlanta inclinata" J. E. Gray, 1850
* "Atlanta inflata" J. E. Gray, 1850
* "Atlanta lesueurii" J. E. Gray, 1850
* "Atlanta peronii" Lesueur, 1817
* "Atlanta pulchella" Verrill, 1884
* "Atlanta quoyii" Gray, 1850
* "Atlanta turriculata" D'Orbigny, 1836

References

* [http://tolweb.org/Atlanta/28752 Tree of Life: Atlanta]
*
* Powell A. W. B., "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1


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