Murdochella

Murdochella is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropods in the family Epitoniidae, the wentletraps, the purple snails, and their allies.

Murdochella
Shell of Murdochella macrina (holotype at the Australian Myseum)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Superfamily:	Epitonioidea
Family:	Epitoniidae
Genus:	Murdochella Finlay, 1927
Type species
Scala levifoliata Murdoch & Suter, 1906
Species
See text

Species

The following species are recognised in the genus Murdochella:

• Murdochella alacer Finlay, 1927
• Murdochella antarctica Dell, 1990
• Murdochella crispata Kilburn, 1985
• Murdochella levifoliata (Murdoch & Suter, 1906)
• Murdochella lobata Kilburn, 1985
• Murdochella macrina Iredale, 1936
• Murdochella tricingulata Campagnari & Geiger, 2018
• Murdochella turritelliformis L. G. Brown, 2019

Former species

• Murdochella magellanica (Philippi, 1845): synonym of Cirsotrema magellanicum (R. A. Philippi, 1845)
• Murdochella superlata Finlay, 1930 - synonymized with Papuliscala superlata (Finlay, 1930)
• Murdochella tertia Finlay, 1930 - synonymized with Murdochella alacer Finlay, 1927

References

• [1]
• Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
• Spencer, H.; Marshall. B. (2009). All Mollusca except Opisthobranchia. In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp

External links

• Finlay, H. J. (1926). A further commentary on New Zealand molluscan systematics. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute. 57: 320-485, pls 18-23
• Brown L.G. & Neville B.D. (2015). Catalog of the recent taxa of the families Epitoniidae and Nystiellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) with a bibliography of the descriptive and systematic literature. Zootaxa. 3907(1): 1-188
• Kilburn R.N. (1985). The family Epitoniidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in southern Africa and Mozambique. Annals of the Natal Museum. 27(1): 239-337.