Brookula

Taxobox
name = "Brookula"
fossil_range =


image_caption =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Vetigastropoda
superfamilia = Trochoidea
familia = Cyclostrematidae
genus = "Brookula"
genus_authority = Iredale, 1912
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Brookula" is a genus of minute sea snails or micromolluscs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cyclostrematidae.

Description

The shells are small, globose-, white or semi-transparent, rather thin, with inflated whorls, umbilicate, and sculptured with prominent axial ribs, often with a spirally striate or lirate inter-costal surface.

pecies within the genus "Brookula"

* "Brookula aethiopica"
* "Brookula angeli"
* "Brookula annectens" Powell, 1937
* "Brookula annulata"
* "Brookula antarctica"
* "Brookula anxia"
* "Brookula benthicola" Dell, 1956
* "Brookula bifurcata"
* "Brookula calypso"
* "Brookula capensis"
* "Brookula coatsianum"
* "Brookula compacta"
* "Brookula conica"
* "Brookula contigua" Powell, 1940
* "Brookula coronis"
* "Brookula corulum" (Hutton, 1885)
* "Brookula crassicostata"
* "Brookula crebresculpta"
* "Brookula decussata"
* "Brookula delli"
* "Brookula denseplicata"
* "Brookula discoidea"
* "Brookula disjuncta"
* "Brookula enderbyensis" Powell, 1931
* "Brookula endodonta"
* "Brookula exquisita"
* "Brookula finlayi" Powell, 1933
* "Brookula finesia"
* "Brookula gaudens"
* "Brookula gemmula"
* "Brookula iki"
* "Brookula iredalei"
* "Brookula jacksonensis"
* "Brookula johnstoni"
* "Brookula kerguelensis"
* "Brookula kilcundae"
* "Brookula meridionale"
* "Brookula nepeanensis" (Gatliff, J. H., 1906)
* "Brookula petalifera"
* "Brookula pfefferi"
* "Brookula pliculosa"
* "Brookula powelli"
* "Brookula prognata" Finlay, 1927
* "Brookula pukeuriensis"
* "Brookula pulcherrima"
* "Brookula rossiana"
* "Brookula sinusbreidensis"
* "Brookula spinulata" Absalão, R.S., Miyaji & A.D. Pimenta, 2001 - Brazil
* "Brookula tenuilirata"
* "Brookula valdiviae"

References

* Powell A. W. B., "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
* [http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/bas_research/data/access/sombase/Gastropod_species/species.php?genus=Brookula]
* [http://zipcodezoo.com/Key/Brookula_Genus.asp ZipCodeZoo]