Solariella is a genus of small to minute sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Solariellidae within the superfamily Trochoidea, the top snails, turban snails and their allies. [2]

Solariella
A shell of Solariella sanjuanensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Solariellidae
Genus: Solariella
S. Wood, 1842[1]
Type species
Solariella maculata Wood, 1842
Synonyms[2]
  • Machaeroplax Friele, 1877
  • Margarita (Solariella) S. Wood, 1842
  • Minolia (Machaeroplax) Friele, 1877
  • Monilea (Solariella) S.V. Wood, 1840 ·
  • Solariella (Periaulax) Cossmann, 1888 · accepted, alternate representation
  • Trochus (Solariella) S. Wood, 1842

This genus was founded by S. Wood for an English fossil trochid, conical in form, with tubular whorls and a deep umbilicus, its margin crenulated.

Species edit

According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), the following species with valid names are included within the genus Solariella

Species brought into synonymy edit

Incertae sedis
    • Solariella mutabilis var laevior Schepman, 1908
    • Solariella mutabilis var. plicifera Schepman, 1908
Species inquirenda
  • Solariella fuscomaculata G.B. Sowerby, 1892
  • Solariella humillima Thiele, 1925
  • Solariella turritellina Ancey, 1881

The Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database also includes the following species with names in current use:[4]

Subgenus Solariella Wood, 1842

Other species within the genus Solariella include:[5][6]

References edit

  1. ^ Wood, S. (1842). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9: 531.
  2. ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Solariella S. V. Wood, 1842. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138597 on 2022-06-17
  3. ^ Kiel S. (2003) New taxonomic data for the gastropod fauna of the Umzamba Formation (Santonian–Campanian, South Africa); Cretaceous Research 24 (2003) 449–475
  4. ^ OBIS: Solariella
  5. ^ "Solariella". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
  6. ^ Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
  • Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213

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