Caribeginella

Caribeginella is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Eratoidae

Caribeginella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Velutinoidae
Family:	Eratoidae
Genus:	Caribeginella Espinosa & Ortea, 1998
Type species
Caribeginella flormarina Espinosa & Ortea, 1998

Taxonomy

Based on its taenioglossate radula, and despite its columellar folds, Espinosa & Ortea (1998) originally allocated Caribeginella to the family Triviidae. Fehse(2012) transferred Caribeginella to the Marginellidae in the synonymy of Hyalina, and suggested that the original authors had, during radula preparation, mixed its radula with that of a species of Triviidae. This view was rejected by Caballer et al. (2013), who treated Caribeginella as a valid marginelliform genus of uncertain suprageneric classification.

Species

Species within the genus Caribeginella include:

• Caribeginella flormarina Espinosa & Ortea, 1998

References

• Espinosa J. & Ortea J. (1998) Nuevo género y nueva especie de Molusco Gasterópodo maginelliforme (Mollusca: Gastropoda) con rádula taenioglossa. Avicennia 8-9: 113–116.
• Ortea, J. & Espinosa, J. (2022). "Caribeginella flormarina Espinosa & Ortea, 1988 (Mollusca: Mesogastropoda: Eratoidae) redescubierta en su localidad tipo,". Avicennia. 30: 31–34.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Fehse, D. (2012). "Caribeginella Espinosa & Ortea 1998 eine Gattung der Trivioidea (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Littorinimorpha)?". Conchylia. 42 (1–4): 49–50.
• Caballer M., Espinosa J., Ortea J. & Narciso S (2013). "Nuevas especies de la familia Marginellidae (Mollusca: Neogastropoda: Muricoidea) de Venezuela". Revista de Biología Marina y Oceanografía. 48 (1): 115–129.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)