Helicopelta
Appearance
Helicopelta | |
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Shell of Helicopelta marshalli (paratype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
Order: | Lepetellida |
Superfamily: | Lepetelloidea |
Family: | Addisoniidae |
Subfamily: | Helicopeltinae |
Genus: | Helicopelta Marshall, 1996[1] |
Type species | |
Helicopelta rostricola B. A. Marshall, 1996 |
Helicopelta is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Addisoniidae.[2]
Species
[edit]Species within the genus Helicopelta include:
- Helicopelta marshalli Rubio & Rolán, 2020
- Helicopelta rostricola Marshall, 1996[3]
References
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- ^ Marshall B. (1996). "A new subfamily of the Addisoniidae associated with cephalopod beaks from the tropical southwest Pacific, and a new pseudococculinid associated with chondrichthyan egg cases from New Zealand (Mollusca: Lepetelloidea)". Veliger 39(3): 250-259. Helicopelta is on the page 253.
- ^ Helicopelta Marshall, 1996. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 11 April 2010.
- ^ Helicopelta rotricola Marshall, 1996. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 11 April 2010.