Strobiligera is a genus of minute sea snails with left-handed shell-coiling, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Triphoridae.[1]

Strobiligera
Shell of Strobiligera delicata (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Suborder: Ptenoglossa
Superfamily: Triphoroidea
Family: Triphoridae
Genus: Strobiligera
Dall, 1924
Type species
Triforis ibex Dall, 1881
Synonyms

Triphora (Strobiligera) Dall, 1924 (original rank)

Description

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(Original description) The Protoconch larger than the succeeding whorl, swollen, smooth. The sutural sulcus is feeble. The siphonal canal is short and open.

There are numerous species in the deep water of the Antilles.[2]

Species

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Synonyms
  • Strobiligera inflata (R. B. Watson, 1880): synonym of Strobiligera filata (Dall, 1889)

References

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  1. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Strobiligera Dall, 1924. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138578 on 2022-07-04
  2. ^ Dall, W. H. (1924). Notes on molluscan nomenclature. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 37: 87-90
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