Caribeginella is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Marginellidae, the margin shells[1]
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| Genus: | Caribeginella Espinosa & Ortea, 1998
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| Caribeginella flormarina Espinosa & Ortea, 1998 | |
Taxonomy edit
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.[1]
Species edit
Species within the genus Caribeginella include:
- Caribeginella flormarina Espinosa & Ortea, 1998[2]
References edit
- ^ a b Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2014). Caribeginella Espinosa & Ortea, 1998. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=456384 on 2015-02-12
- ^ Caribeginella flormarina Espinosa & Ortea , 1998. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 9 July 2010.
- Espinosa J. & Ortea J. (1998) Nuevo género y nueva especie de Molusco Gasterópodo maginelliforme (Mollusca: Gastropoda) con rádula taenioglossa. Avicennia 8-9: 113–116.
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