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Dillwynella

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Kingdom
  
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Trochoidea

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Genus

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Dillwynella

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Parviturbo, Seguenzioidea, Trochoidea, Vetigastropoda, Turbinidae

Dillwynella is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Skeneidae.

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Description

The minute, depressed, porcellanous shell has a thin horny operculum. It consists of comparatively few whorls. The shell is imperforate, but with a depression bounded by a riblet in the umbilical rib outside of the columella. The few whorls have a thin fugacious epidermis. The outer lip is thin .The columella has no teeth, projections, or folds, passing smoothly into the anterior margin.

Species

Species within the genus Dillwynella include:

  • Dillwynella aulacophora Cossmann, 1913
  • Dillwynella fallax Hasegawa, 1997
  • Dillwynella haptricola B.A. Marshall, 1988
  • Dillwynella houzeaui Cossmann, 1913
  • Dillwynella ingens B.A. Marshall, 1988
  • Dillwynella lignicola B.A. Marshall, 1988
  • Dillwynella modesta (Dall, 1889)
  • Dillwynella planorbis Hasegawa, 1997
  • Dillwynella sheisinmaruae Hasegawa, 1997
  • Dillwynella texana G. Harris, 1895
  • Dillwynella vitrea Hasegawa, 1997
  • Dillwynella voightae Kunze, 2011
  • References

    Dillwynella Wikipedia


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