Myosotella

Genus of gastropods

Myosotella
live Myosotella myosotis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Ellobiida
Superfamily: Ellobioidea
Family: Ellobiidae
Genus: Myosotella
Monterosato, 1906[1]
Type species
Auricula payraudeaui
Shuttleworth, 1843
Synonyms[2]
  • Alexia Leach in Gray, 1847 (Invalid: junior homonym of Alexia Stephens, 1833 [Coleoptera]; Nealexia is a replacement name)
  • Alexia (Kochia) Pallary, 1900
  • Auricula (Alexia) Leach in Gray, 1847
  • Jaminia T. Brown, 1827
  • Kochia Pallary, 1900 (Invalid: junior homonym of Kochia Frech, 1891 [Bivalvia])
  • Nealexia Wenz, 1920
  • Ovatella (Alexia) Leach in Gray, 1847
  • Ovatella (Myosotella) Monterosato, 1906
  • Tralia (Alexia) Leach, 1847
  • Volatela Starobogatov, 1993

Myosotella is a European genus or subgenus (of Ovatella) of small, salt marsh snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Pythiinae of the family Ellobiidae.[2]

It feeds on algae growing on the rocks in a stream.

Species

Species within the genus Myosotella include:

  • † Myosotella bardini (Tournouër, 1872)
  • † Myosotella benoisti (Degrange-Touzin, 1892)
  • Myosotella bicolor (Morelet, 1860)
  • † Myosotella blesensis (de Morgan, 1917)
  • † Myosotella boissyi (Cossmann, 1889)
  • † Myosotella depressa (O. Boettger, 1877)
  • † Myosotella dumortieri (Fontannes, 1876)
  • † Myosotella fusiformis (A. Bell, 1870)
  • † Myosotella mucronata (O. Boettger, 1875)
  • † Myosotella munieri (Tournouër, 1872)
  • Myosotella myosotis Draparnaud, 1801
  • † Myosotella myotis (Brocchi, 1814)
  • † Myosotella obovata (Paladilhe, 1874)
  • † Myosotella polyodon (F. Sandberger, 1872)
  • † Myosotella raouli (Ivolas & Peyrot, 1900)
  • † Myosotella torulosa (Paladilhe, 1874)
  • † Myosotella viennensis (Fontannes, 1876)
Species brought into synonymy

References

  1. ^ Monterosato T. A. di (1906). "Articolo sulle Auriculidae, Assiminidae [sic] e Truncatellidae dei mari d'Europa". Il Naturalista Siciliano 18: 125-130. Palermo. page 126.
  2. ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Myosotella Monterosato, 1906. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137924 on 2021-03-28
  • Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
  • Starobogatov, Ya.I. & Anistratenko, V.V. (1993). Моллюски подотряда Ellobioidei (Pulmonata) побережья Средиземного моря и Ев- ропейской Атлантики. [Molluscs of the suborder Ellobioidei (Pulmonata) of the shores of the Mediterranean and European Atlantic]. Вестник зоологии [Vestnik Zoologii]. (1993)4: 3-9.

External links

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  • AnimalBase info at: [1]
  • Monterosato, T. A. di. (1906). Articolo sulle Auriculidae, Assiminidae e Truncatellidae dei mari d'Europa. Il Naturalista Siciliano. New Series, 18 (6): 125–130
  • Gray, J.E. (1847). On the classification of the British Mollusca by W E Leach. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. ser. 1, 20: 267-273.
  • Wenz, W. (1920). Die Ellobiiden des Mainzer Beckens. Senckenbergiana. 2: 189-192
  • Brown, T. (1827). Illustrations of the conchology of Great Britain and Ireland. Drawn from nature. W.H. Lizars and D. Lizars, Edinburgh and S. Highley, London. 144 pp., 52 pls
  • Pallary, P. (1900). Coquilles marines du littoral du département d'Oran. Journal de Conchyliologie. 48(3): 211-422
  • Martins, A. M. de F. (1999). On the generic separation of Ovatella Bivona, 1832 and Myosotella Monterosato (Pulmonata, Ellobiidae). Iberus. 17(2): 59-75†
Taxon identifiers
Myosotella


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