Gadinalea

Taxobox
name = "Gadinalea"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Heterobranchia
ordo = Pulmonata
familia = Trimusculidae
genus = "Gadinalea"
genus_authority = Iredale, 1940
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Gadinalea" is a genus of medium-sized air-breathing sea snails or false limpets, marine pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Trimusculidae, the button snails.

Distribution

This genus of marine, air-breathing false limpet is endemic to Australia and New Zealand.

pecies within the genus "Gadinalea"

* "Gadinalea conica" (Angas, 1867)
* "Gadinalea nivea" Hutton, 1883

References

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