Ovaginella

Ovaginella
Shell of Ovaginella decaryi (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Volutoidea
Family:	Marginellidae
Genus:	Ovaginella Laseron, 1957
Type species
Marginella ovulum G. B. Sowerby II, 1846

Ovaginella is a genus of marginellid minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Austroginellinae of the family Marginellidae, the margin snails.

Species

• † Ovaginella arenula Darragh, 2017
• Ovaginella decaryi (Bavay, 1920)
• Ovaginella maoria (Powell, 1937)
• † Ovaginella mumiformis Darragh, 2017
• Ovaginella ovulum (G. B. Sowerby II, 1846)
• Ovaginella profunda (Suter, 1909)
• Ovaginella tenisoni (Pritchard, 1900)

Synonyms

• Ovaginella cylichnella (May, 1918): synonym of Balanetta cylichnella (May, 1918)
• Ovaginella nielseni (Laseron, 1948): synonym of Cystiscus minutissimus (Tenison Woods, 1876)
• Ovaginella rotunda (Laseron, 1948): synonym of Ovaginella tenisoni (Pritchard, 1900)
• Ovaginella stiria (Cotton, 1949): synonym of Ovaginella tenisoni (Pritchard, 1900)
• Ovaginella whani (Pritchard & Gatliff, 1900): synonym of Balanetta baylii Jousseaume, 1875

References

• Bavay, A., 1920. Sables littoraux de Madagascar. Marginelles. Journal de Conchyliologie 65: 163-168
• Laseron, C. F. (1957). A new classification of the Australian Marginellidae (Mollusca), with a review of species from the Solanderian and Dampierian zoogeographical provinces. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 8 (3): 274–311.
• Cossignani T. (2006). Marginellidae & Cystiscidae of the World. L'Informatore Piceno. 408pp

External links

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• Coovert, G. A.; Coovert, H. K. (1995). Revision of the supraspecific classification of marginelliform gastropods. The Nautilus. 109(2-3): 43-100

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