Lodderena is a genus of minute sea snails or micromolluscs, marine gastropod molluscs, formerly in the family Skeneidae.[1][2] Following a morphological reevaluation, it was excluded from Skeneidae and treated as incertae sedis within the superfamily Trochoidea.[3][4]

Lodderena
Temporal range: Miocene to Recent
Shell of Lodderena arifca (holotype at the Smithsonian Institution)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Genus: Lodderena
Iredale, 1924
Type species
Liotia minima
Tenison-Woods, J.E., 1878
Species

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Species

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Species within the genus Lodderena include:

Species brought into synonymy
  • Lodderena catenoides (Monterosato, 1877): synonym of Skenea catenoides (Monterosato, 1877)

References

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  1. ^ Bouchet, Philippe. "Lodderena Iredale, 1924". World Register of Marine Species. Archived from the original on 11 November 2012.
  2. ^ "Lodderena". Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
  3. ^ Haszprunar, Gerhard; Brückner, Martin; Ruthensteiner, Bernhard (2020). "Skeneimorph but not skeneid: Systematics and anatomy of Lodderena Iredale, 1924 (Vetigastropoda: Trochoidea)". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 86 (3): 157–172. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyaa011.
  4. ^ Bouchet, Philippe. Bieler R, Bouchet P, Gofas S, Marshall B, Rosenberg G, La Perna R, Neubauer TA, Sartori AF, Schneider S, Vos C, ter Poorten JJ, Taylor J, Dijkstra H, Finn J, Bank R, Neubert E, Moretzsohn F, Faber M, Houart R, Picton B, Garcia-Alvarez O (eds.). "Lodderena Iredale, 1924". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 11 September 2023.