Microgaza
Sign in to saveMicrogaza is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Solariellidae.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderTrochida
- FamilySolariellidae
Habitatmarine
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 17
- Family
- Solariellidae
- Collections
- UWBM, DMNS, MNHN, AM, USNM
- Recorded in
- Fiji, Philippines, Archipel Des Australes, Guadeloupe, Australia, New Caledonia
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Microgaza is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Solariellidae.
==Description== The flattened shell is rotelliform, resembling a species from the genus Gaza without the reflected lip or umbilical callus. The shell is brilliantly nacreous when fresh. It has a distinctly scalariform umbilicus.
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