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Minolia
Sign in to saveMinolia 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
- 87
- With media
- 3
- Family
- Solariellidae
- Collections
- UCMP, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, DMNH, UF, NHMUK, CM
- Recorded in
- United States, Australia, Democratic Socialist Republic Of Sri Lanka, Japan, Philippines, Oman, South Africa, Pakistan
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Solariellidae
- Image
- Minolia caifassii 001.jpg
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- taxon name
- Minolia
- taxon rank
- genus
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- Minolia
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
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- Species
- Synonyms
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Minolia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Solariellidae.
A. Adams named the genus from Mino-Sima, the little island near Niphon (Japan). Minolia was in older textbooks regarded as a subgenus of Margarita Leach, 1819 (itself now a synonym of Margarites Gray, 1847).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Minolia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.