Marinula

Marinula
Marinula xanthostoma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Ellobiida
Family:	Ellobiidae
Subfamily:	Carychiinae
Genus:	Marinula King & Broderip, 1832
Synonyms
Cremnobates Swainson, 1855 Maripythia Iredale, 1936 (unavailable name: no description)

Marinula is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Ellobiidae.

This genus is found in New Zealand.

Species

Species within the genus Marinula include:

• Marinula acuta (d'Orbigny, 1835)
• Marinula concinna (C. B. Adams, 1852)
• Marinula filholi Hutton, 1878
• Marinula juanensis
• Marinula maindroni Vélain, 1877
• Marinula parva (Swainson, 1855)
• Marinula pepita King, 1832
• Marinula rhoadsi Pilsbry, 1910
• Marinula striata Odhner, 1924
• Marinula tristanensis Connolly, 1915
• Marinula velaini Connolly, 1915
• Marinula xanthostoma

Species brought into synonymy

• Subgenus Marinula (Monica) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855: synonym of Ovatella Bivona-Bernardi, 1832
• Marinula affinis (Férussac, 1821): synonym of Pedipes affinis Férussac, 1821
• Marinula chathamensis Finlay, 1928: synonym of Marinula filholi Hutton, 1878

References

• King, P.P. (1832) Description of the Cirrhipeda, Conchifera and Mollusca, in a collection formed by the officers of H.M.S. Adventure and Beagle employed between the years 1826 and 1830 in surveying the southern coasts of South America, including the Straits of Magalhaens and the coast of Tierra del Fuego. Zoological Journal, 5: 332-349
• Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1

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