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Glabella (gastropod)

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Gastropoda

Family
  
Marginellidae

Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Superfamily
  
Muricoidea

Subfamily
  
Marginellinae

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Similar
  
Marginella glabella, Marginella, Marginellidae, Volvarina

Glabella is a genus of small tropical and warm-water sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Marginellidae, the margin snails.

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Taxonomy

It is debatable whether it is justified to distinguish this genus from Marginella s. str. without a comprehensive phylogenetic hypothesis of the family. However the two genera cannot be objective synonyms because Marginella glabella (Linnaeus, 1758) is not one of the species originally included in Glabella.

Species

According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), the following species with valid names are included within the genus Glabella :

  • Glabella adansoni Kiener, 1834
  • Glabella ansonae Clover, 1976
  • Glabella bellii G.B. Sowerby II, 1846
  • Glabella bifasciata (Lamarck, 1822)
  • Glabella davisiana Marrat, 1877
  • Glabella denticulata Link, 1807
  • Glabella faba (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Glabella fumigata (Gofas & Fernandes, 1994)
  • Glabella harpaeformis G.B. Sowerby II, 1846
  • Glabella henrikasi (Bozzetti, 1995)
  • Glabella lucani (Jousseaume, 1884)
  • Glabella mirabilis H. Adams, 1869
  • Glabella mozambicana Boyer, 2014
  • Glabella nodata (Hinds, 1844)
  • Glabella obtusa G.B. Sowerby II, 1846
  • Glabella omanensis Boyer, 2014
  • Glabella pseudofaba G.B. Sowerby II, 1846
  • Glabella reeveana Petit, 1851
  • Glabella rosadoi Kilburn, 1994
  • Glabella rotunda Boyer, 2014
  • Glabella tyermani (Marrat, 1876)
  • Glabella xicoi (Boyer, Ryall & Wakefield, 1999)
  • Glabella youngi Kilburn, 1977
    • Species brought into synonymy
  • Glabella arenaria Mörch, 1852: synonym of Glabella denticulata (Link, 1807)
  • Glabella ferreirai Alves, 1996: synonym of Glabella mozambicana Boyer, 2014

    • References

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