Gelagna

Gelagna is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cymatiidae.[2]

Gelagna
shell of Gelagna succincta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Cymatiidae
Genus: Gelagna
Schaufuss, 1869[1]
Type species
Triton clandestinus Lamarck, 1816
Synonyms[2]
  • Linatella (Gelagna) Schaufuss, 1869
  • Paralagena Dall, 1904
  • Ranularia (Lagena) Mörch, 1852 (Invalid: junior homonym of Lagena Röding, 1798 and Lagena Schumacher, 1817; Gelagna and Paralagena are replacement names)

Species

Species within the genus Gelagna include:

References

  1. Schaufuss (1869). Moll. Syst. Cat. Paetel, 3.
  2. Gelagna Schaufuss, 1869. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 December 2018.
  3. Gelagna pallida (Parth, 1996). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 27 June 2010.
  4. Gelagna succincta (Linnaeus, 1771). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 27 June 2010.

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