Poole, Karen E.
Gibbula
Sign in to saveGibbula is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Cantharidinae of the family Trochidae, the top snails.
Species
KINGDOM
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderStylommatophora
- FamilyClausiliidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,031
- With media
- 73
- Family
- Trochidae
- Collections
- RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE
- Recorded in
- Italy, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Japan, Spain, Sri Lanka, Mauritania
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Gibbula is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Cantharidinae of the family Trochidae, the top snails.
==Taxonomy== Affenzeller et al. (2017) have shown than several Mediterranean species hitherto assigned to Gibbula were forming a separate clade and should be assigned to the genus Steromphala. They included in the restricted Gibbula clade the species G. magus (type species), G. fanulum and G. ardens. However many other species were not taken into account in this paper and will remain listed in WoRMS under Gibbula until their phylogenetic position is assessed, but possibly do not belong to the restricted Gibbula clade.
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