Maesiella

Maesiella is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[2]

Maesiella
Shell of Maesiella maesae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Maesiella
McLean, 1971[1]
Type species
Maesiella maesae McLean & Poorman, 1971
Species

See text

The generic name Maesiella is named in honor of American malacologist Virginia Orr Maes.[3]

Species

Species within the genus Maesiella include:

Species brought into synonymy
gollark: But consider. If we had vast orbital mirrors, that could be cheaper to use than satellites.
gollark: Satellite internet is low-bandwidth and beesingly expensive.
gollark: Not ANYONE. What if I am in the Sahara desert? There are no mobile phone networks there.
gollark: You could just use IPoAC.
gollark: It doesn't seem a great idea.

References
  1. McLean (1971). Veliger 14: 123.
  2. Maesiella McLean, 1971. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 15 April 2010.
  3. Robertson R. (1987). "Virginia Orr Maes (1920-1986): Biography and Malacological Bibliography". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 139: 527-532.
  4. Maesiella hermanita (Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 15 April 2010.
  5. Maesiella maesae McLean & Poorman, 1971. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 15 April 2010.
  6. Maesiella punctatostriata (Carpenter, 1856). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 15 April 2010.
  • McLean, J.H. (1971) A revised classification of the family Turridae, with the proposal of new subfamilies, genera, and subgenera from the Eastern Pacific. The Veliger, 14, 114–130
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
  • Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77(3): 273-308
  • Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Pseudomelatomidae


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.