Minolia

Minolia
Minolia rotundata shell
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Family: Solariellidae
Genus: Minolia
A. Adams, 1860
Type species
Minolia punctata
Adams, A., 1860
Synonyms
  • Hazuregyra Shikama, 1962 ·(junior subjective synonym)
  • Margarita (Minolia) A. Adams, 1860
  • Minolia (Machaeroplax) Friele, 1877
  • Minolia (Minolia) A. Adams, 1860
  • Minosia [sic] misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling
  • Monilea (Minolia) A. Adams, 1860 superseded ran
  • Solariella (Minolia) A. Adams, 1860
  • Trochus (Minolia) A. Adams, 1860

Minolia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Solariellidae.

A. Adams named the genus from Mino-Sima, the little island near Niphon (Japan). Minolia was in older textbooks regarded as a subgenus of Margarita Leach, 1819 (itself now a synonym of Margarites Gray, 1847).

Description

The thin, delicate, smooth shell is depressed and widely umbilicated. The whorls are rounded or angulated. The spire is depressed. The sculpture is finely decussated. The aperture is circular. The outer lip and columella thin, simple, acute. The umbilicus is simple and contains no spiral, callous internal funicle or rib.

Distribution

These marine species belong to the Indian Ocean, the western and southwestern Pacific Ocean.[citation needed]

Species

Species within the genus Minolia include:

Taxa inquirenda
Species mentioned in the Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database

Synonyms

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Adams, Arthur (1860). "Article: XLII.—On some new genera and species of Mollusca from Japan". The Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 3rd ser. v. 6: 336–337.
  2. 1 2 Minolia A. Adams, 1860. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 February 2012.
  3. ↑ Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
  4. ↑ S. Williams: Minolia pompiliodes
  5. ↑ S. Williams: Minolia pseudobscura
  6. ↑ "International shell database: Minolia punctata". Taiwan Molluscs Database. Retrieved 11 August 2009.
  7. ↑ S. Williams: Minolia rotundata
  8. ↑ S. Williams: Minolia sakya
  9. ↑ Minolia caifassii Carmagna, 1888. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 22 April 2010.
  10. ↑ S. Williams: Minolia ceraunia
  11. ↑ H. Pilsbry, Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
  12. ↑ Minolia condei Poppe, Tagaro & Dekker, 2006. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 22 April 2010.
  13. ↑ S. Williams: Minolia edithae
  14. ↑ S. Williams: Minolia gilvosplendens
  15. ↑ S. Williams Minolia malcolmia
  16. ↑ OBIS: Minolia
  17. ↑ S. Williams: Minolia glaucophaos
  18. ↑ Minolia gradata G.B. Sowerby III, 1895. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 22 April 2010.
  19. ↑ Minolia segersi Poppe, Tagaro & Dekker, 2006. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 22 April 2010.
  20. ↑ (original combination)S. Williams: Minolia semireticulata
  21. ↑ Minolia singaporensis (Pilsbry, 1889). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 22 April 2010.
  22. ↑ S. Williams: Minolia strigata
  23. ↑ S. Williams: Minolia subangulata
  24. ↑ Minolia tabakotanii Poppe, Tagaro & Dekker, 2006. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 22 April 2010.
  25. ↑ Minolia variegata Odhner, 1919. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 22 April 2010.