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Tegula (gastropod)

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Superfamily
  
Trochoidea

Scientific name
  
Tegula

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Clade
  
Vetigastropoda

Family
  
Tegulidae

Higher classification
  
Trochidae

Rank
  
Genus

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Lower classifications
  
Tegula funebralis, Tegula brunnea, Tegula montereyi, Tegula pfeifferi, Tegula pulligo

Tegula is a genus of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Tegulidae.

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Biology

The function of the heart in Tegula snails may have a critical importance for their temperature tolerance.

Species

Species within the genus Tegula include:

Species brought into synonymy
Tegula (gastropod) Holman Shell Collection

  • Tegula argyrostoma (Gmelin, 1791): synonym of Chlorostoma lischkei (Tapparone-Canefri, 1874)
  • Tegula elegans Lesson, 1832: synonym of Tegula pellisserpentis (Wood, 1828)
  • Tegula fuscescens Philippi, R.A., 1845: synonym of Tegula patagonica (Orbigny, A.V.M.D. d', 1835)
  • Tegula ligulata (Menke, 1850): synonym of Tegula ligulata mariamadrae Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932
  • Tegula lischkei (Tapparone-Canefri, 1874): synonym of Chlorostoma lischkei (Tapparone-Canefri, 1874)
  • Tegula maculostriata (C. B. Adams): synonym of Tegula hotessieriana (d’Orbigny, 1842)
  • Tegula mendella McLean, J.H., 1964: synonym of Tegula eiseni Jordan, 1936
  • Tegula phalera Weisbord, 1962: synonym of Tegula puntagordana Weisbord, 1962
  • Tegula rustica (Gmelin, 1791): synonym of Omphalius rusticus (Gmelin, 1791)
  • Tegula scalaris (C.B. Adams, 1845): synonym of Tegula lividomaculata (C. B. Adams, 1845)
  • Tegula trilirata Weisbord, 1962: synonym of Tegula puntagordana Weisbord, 1962
  • Tegula umbilicata Lischke, C.E. in Iwakawa, 1919: synonym of Chlorostoma argyrostoma turbinata (Adams, A., 1853); synonym of Tegula argyrostoma turbinatum A. Adams, 1853
  • Tegula xanthostigma A. Adams, 1853: synonym of Chlorostoma xanthostigma (A. Adams, 1853)

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    References

    Tegula (gastropod) Wikipedia
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