Moerchia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.[1]
Moerchia | |
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Shell of Moerchia deformata (holotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subcohort: | Panpulmonata |
Superfamily: | Pyramidelloidea |
Family: | Pyramidellidae |
Genus: | Moerchia A. Adams, 1860 |
Type species | |
Moerchia obvoluta A. Adams, 1860 | |
Synonyms[1] | |
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Species
edit- Moerchia deformata Rubio & Rolán, 2014
- Moerchia intermedia (Thiele, 1925)
- Moerchia introspecta Hedley, 1907
- Moerchia morleti P. Fischer, 1877
- Moerchia obvoluta A. Adams, 1860
- Moerchia perforata Rubio & Rolán, 2014
- Taxon inquirendum
- Moerchia biplicata P. Fischer, 1877
References
edit- ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Moerchia A. Adams, 1860. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=559939 on 2021-08-11
- Thiele, J. (1924). Revision des Systems der Trochacea. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin. 11(1): 47-74
- Thiele, J. (1929-1935). Handbuch der systematischen Weichtierkunde. Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1154 pp.
- Rubio F. & Rolán E. (2014). Two new species of Moerchia A. Adams, 1860 (Gastropoda, Pyramidellidae) from southwest tropical Pacific. Novapex. 15(3-4): 63-71
External links
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- Adams, A. (1860). On some new genera and species of Mollusca from Japan. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (3) 5: 299-303 [1 April 1860]; 405-413
- Laseron, C. F. (1958). Liotiidae and allied molluscs from the Dampierian Zoogeographical Province. Records of the Australian Museum. 24: 165-182