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Microgaza

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Gastropoda

Superfamily
  
Trochoidea

Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Clade
  
Vetigastropoda

Family
  
Solariellidae

Microgaza

Similar
  
Solariella, Solariellidae, Microgaza rotella, Solariella obscura

Microgaza is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Solariellidae.

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Description

The flattened shell is rotelliform, resembling a species from the genus Gaza without the reflected lip or umbilical callus. The shell is brilliantly nacreous when fresh. It has a distinctly scalariform umbilicus.

Species

Species within the genus Microgaza include:

  • Microgaza corona Lee Y.C. & Wu W.L., 2001
  • Microgaza fulgens Dall, 1907
  • Microgaza katoi (Kuroda & Habe, 1961)
  • Microgaza konos Vilvens, 2009
  • Microgaza opalina (Shikama & Hayashi, 1977)
  • Microgaza rotella Dall, 1881
  • Microgaza vetula Woodring, 1928
  • Species brought into synonymy
  • Microgaza alabida (Marshall, 1979) accepted as Archiminolia alabida (B. A. Marshall, 1979)
  • Microgaza dawsoni (Marshall, 1979) accepted as Archiminolia dawsoni (B. A. Marshall, 1979)
  • Microgaza gotoi Poppe, Tagaro & Dekker, 2006: synonym of Ilanga gotoi (Poppe, Tagaro & Dekker, 2006)
  • Microgaza hurleyi (Marshall, 1979) accepted as Archiminolia hurleyi (B. A. Marshall, 1979)
  • Microgaza inornata Quinn, 1979: synonym of Microgaza rotella inornata Quinn, 1979
  • Microgaza iridescens (Habe, 1968): synonym of Archiminolia iridescens (Habe, 1961)
  • Microgaza norfolkensis Marshall, 1999; synonym of Ilanga norfolkensis (B. A. Marshall, 1999)
  • Microgaza ziczac Kuroda & Habe, 1971: synonym of Archiminolia ziczac (Kuroda & Habe, 1971)
  • References

    Microgaza Wikipedia