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Stellaria (gastropod)

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Superfamily
  
Xenophoroidea

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Class
  
Gastropoda

Family
  
Xenophoridae

Rank
  
Genus

Stellaria (gastropod)

Similar
  
Stellaria solaris, Xenophoridae, Xenophora pallidula, Xenophora, Xenophora conchyliophora

Stellaria is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Xenophoridae, the carrier shells.

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Description

Shells medium-sized to large (diameter of base without attachments 65–128 mm; height of shell 48–70 mm), rather depressed to moderately high-spired, widely umbilicate, with wide peripheral flange (30-40% of total diameter at base) which is simple in some species or is digitate or divided into numerous long, hollow, narrow, parallel-sided spines. Ventral side of peripheral flange non-porcellanous. Foreign objects usually small to very small covering less than 30% of dorsal surface.

Species

Species within the genus Stellaria include:

  • Stellaria chinensis (Philippi, 1841)
  • Stellaria gigantea (Schepman, 1909)
  • Stellaria lamberti (Souverbie, 1871)
  • Stellaria solaris (Linnaeus, 1764) (type species of Stellaria)
  • Stellaria testigera (Bronn, 1831)
  • Stellaria testigera digitata von Martens, 1878
  • Stellaria testigera profunda Ponder, 1983

    • References

    Stellaria (gastropod) Wikipedia
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