Scissurella

Taxobox
name = "Scissurella"


image_caption =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Prosobranchia
ordo = Archaeogastropoda
superfamilia = Pleurotomariacea
familia = Scissurellidae
genus = "Scissurella"
genus_authority = d'Orbigny, 1824
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Scissurella" is a genus of very small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Scissurellidae, the small slit snails.

Distribution

This genus is found in most seas worldwide.

Description

The shells are , depressed, of few whorls, with an open anal slit in the outer lip, at the end of the , that has sharply defined edges.

pecies in the genus "Scissurella"

* "Scissurella alta" Watson, 1886
* "Scissurella bountyensis" Powell, 1933
* "Scissurella caliana" Dall, 1919
* "Scissurella cingulata" O. G. Costa, 1861 - belt scissurelle
* "Scissurella coronata" Watson, 1866
* "Scissurella fairchildi" Powell, 1933
* "Scissurella lacuniformis" Watson, 1886
* "Scissurella laevigata" d'Orbigny, 1824
* "Scissurella lamellata" (A. Adams, 1862)
* "Scissurella lyra" S. S. Berry, 1947 - lyre scissurelle
* "Scissurella manawatawhia" Powell, 1937
* "Scissurella prendrevillei" Powell, 1933
* "Scissurella proxima" Dall, 1927 - Florida scissurelle
* "Scissurella soyoae" (Habe, 1951)
* "Scissurella stellae" Fleming, 1948
* "Scissurella tabulata" Watson, 1886

References

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