Incisura is a genus of sea snails or keyhole limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Scissurellidae.[1]
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| Incisura rosea shell | |
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| (unranked): | clade Vetigastropoda
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| Genus: | Incisura Hedley, 1904
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| Scissurella lyttleltonensis E. A. Smith, 1894 | |
Species edit
Species within the genus Incisura include:
- Incisura auriformis Geiger & Jansen, 2004
- Incisura lytteltonensis (E. A. Smith, 1894)
- Incisura remota (Iredale, 1924)
- Incisura rosea (Hedley, 1904)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Incisura obliqua (Watson, 1886): synonym of Scissurella obliqua Watson, 1886
- Incisura vincentiana (Cotton, 1945): synonym of Incisura remota (Iredale, 1924)
References edit
- ^ Bouchet, P. (2012). Incisura. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=391602 on 2012-07-18
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
- Geiger D.L. (2003) Phylogenetic assessment of characters proposed for the generic classification of Recent Scissurellidae (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) with a description of one new genus and six new species from Easter Island and Australia. Molluscan Research 23: 21-83
- Geiger D.L. (2012) Monograph of the little slit shells. Volume 1. Introduction, Scissurellidae. pp. 1–728. Volume 2. Anatomidae, Larocheidae, Depressizonidae, Sutilizonidae, Temnocinclidae. pp. 729–1291. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Monographs Number 7.
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