Tegula (gastropod)

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Kingdom Animalia Superfamily Trochoidea Scientific name Tegula Phylum Mollusca		Clade Vetigastropoda Family Tegulidae Higher classification Trochidae Rank Genus

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.

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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