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Parmaphorella

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Gastropoda

Family
  
Fissurellidae

Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Superfamily
  
Fissurelloidea

Subfamily
  
Emarginulinae

Similar
  
Rimula, Lucapinella, Hemitoma, Lucapina

Parmaphorella is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets.

Parmophoridea Wenz, 1938 is an unnecessary replacement name because Parmaphorella Strebel, 1907 is not preoccupied by Parmophorella Matthew, 1886

Species

Species within the genus Parmophoridea include:

  • Parmaphorella antarctica (Strebel, 1907)
  • Parmaphorella mawsoni (Powell, 1958)
  • Parmaphorella melvilli (Thiele, 1912)
    • Species brought into synonymy
  • Parmaphorella barnardi Tomlin, 1932: synonym of Tugali barnardi (Tomlin, 1932)

    • References

    Parmaphorella Wikipedia
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