Kingdom Animalia Superfamily Cerithioidea Phylum Mollusca | Class Gastropoda Family Scaliolidae Rank Genus | |
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Similar Cerithiidae, Turbonilla, Planaxidae, Diastomatidae, Bittium | ||
Finella la vera regina della cucina barese
Finella is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Scaliolidae.
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- Finella la vera regina della cucina barese
- The search for the lost waterfall of den finella
- Description
- Distribution
- Species
- References
This genus has been assigned in the course of time to different families by different authors: Rissoidae, Cerithiidae, Dialidae, Obtortionidae, Finellidae and Diastomatidae Morphological and anatomical studies by Winston Ponder in 1994 established that the genera Finella and Scaliola didn't belong in the above mentioned families and he brought them in a new family Scaliolidae. This was supported in 1982 by Healy through the study of the ultrastructure on the spermatozoa.
The search for the lost waterfall of den finella
Description
The species in this genus contain a small, elongated, conical shell without siphonal canal. The axial to spiral sculpture varies between weak and strong.
Distribution
The snails of this species are common to even abundant in shallow waters of the tropical Indo-West Pacific Ocean.
Species
Species within the genus Finella include: