Lamellaria

Lamellaria
Shell of Lamellaria berghi (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Drawing of ventral view of live animal of Lamellaria latens
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Velutinoidea
Family: Velutinidae
Subfamily: Lamellariinae
Genus: Lamellaria
Montagu, 1816
Type species
Lamellaria tentaculata
Montagu, 1816
Synonyms
  • Cryptocella H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853
  • Djiboutia Vayssière, 1912
  • Lamellaria (Lamellaria) Montagu, 1816
  • Marsenia Oken, 1823

Lamellaria is a genus of small slug-like sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Velutinidae.

Species

Species within the genus Lamellaria include:

Taxon inquirendum
Species brought into synonymy
Taxon inquirendum

Secondary metabolites

They are the source of Lamellarin D, found by Steiner et al. 2015 and Borjan et al. 2015 to a cytotoxin.

References

  1. 1 2 Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2012). Lamellaria. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138101 on 2012-03-16
  2. ↑ OBIS: Lamellaria ophione
  3. ↑ Pircher, Andreas; Steiner, Normann; Gunsilius, Eberhard (2019). 12 Cytotoxics and Anti-angiogenics. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Reference. pp. 327–347. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-33673-2_12.

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