Mauroceras is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Caecidae.[1]
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| Shell of Mauroceras kajiyamai (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Truncatelloidea |
| Family: | Caecidae |
| Genus: | Mauroceras Vannozzi, 2019 |
| Type species | |
| Meioceras kajiyamai Habe, 1963 | |
Species edit
- Mauroceras amamiense (Habe, 1978)
- Mauroceras boucheti (Pizzini & Raines, 2011)
- Mauroceras kajiyamai (Habe, 1963)
- Mauroceras legumen (Hedley, 1899)
- Mauroceras maestratii (Pizzini, Raines & Vannozzi, 2013)
- Mauroceras rhinoceros (Pizzini, Raines & Vannozzi, 2013)
- Mauroceras sandwichense (de Folin, 1881)
- Mauroceras serratum (Vannozzi, 2017)
References edit
- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Mauroceras Vannozzi, 2019. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1356167 on 2021-07-08
- Vannozzi A. (2019). Mauroceras, a new genus for Indo-West Pacific species hitherto assigned to Meioceras (Gastropoda: Caecidae). Bollettino Malacologico. 55(1): 55–61.
External links edit
Media related to Mauroceras at Wikimedia Commons
