Myosotella

Myosotella
live Myosotella myosotis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Ellobiida
Superfamily:	Ellobioidea
Family:	Ellobiidae
Genus:	Myosotella Monterosato, 1906
Type species
Auricula payraudeaui Shuttleworth, 1843
Synonyms
Alexia Leach in Gray, 1847 (Invalid: junior homonym of Alexia Stephens, 1833 [Coleoptera]; Nealexia is a replacement name) Alexia (Kochia) Pallary, 1900 Auricula (Alexia) Leach in Gray, 1847 Kochia Pallary, 1900 (Invalid: junior homonym of Kochia Frech, 1891 [Bivalvia]) Nealexia Wenz, 1920 Ovatella (Alexia) Leach in Gray, 1847 Ovatella (Myosotella) Monterosato, 1906 Tralia (Alexia) Leach, 1847 Volatela Starobogatov, 1993

Myosotella is a European genus or subgenus (of Ovatella) of small, salt marsh snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Pythiinae of the family Ellobiidae.

It feeds on algae growing on the rocks in a stream.

Species

Species within the genus Myosotella include:

• † Myosotella benoisti (Degrange-Touzin, 1892)
• Myosotella bicolor (Morelet, 1860)
• † Myosotella blesensis (de Morgan, 1917)
• † Myosotella boissyi (Cossmann, 1889)
• † Myosotella depressa (O. Boettger, 1877)
• † Myosotella dumortieri (Fontannes, 1876)
• † Myosotella elongata (Briart & Cornet, 1887)
• † Myosotella fusiformis (A. Bell, 1870)
• † Myosotella mucronata (O. Boettger, 1875)
• † Myosotella munieri (Tournouër, 1872)
• Myosotella myosotis Draparnaud, 1801
• † Myosotella myotis (Brocchi, 1814)
• † Myosotella obovata (Paladilhe, 1874)
• † Myosotella pisolina (Deshayes, 1830)
• † Myosotella raouli (Ivolas & Peyrot, 1900)
• † Myosotella torulosa (Paladilhe, 1874)
• † Myosotella viennensis (Fontannes, 1876)

Species brought into synonymy

• † Myosotella bardini (Tournouër, 1872): synonym of † Tralia bardini (Tournouër, 1872)
• Myosotella denticulata (Montagu, 1803): synonym of Myosotella myosotis (Draparnaud, 1801)
• † Myosotella polyodon (F. Sandberger, 1872): synonym of † Tralia bardini (Tournouër, 1872)

References

• 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
• Starobogatov, Ya.I. & Anistratenko, V.V. (1993). Моллюски подотряда Ellobioidei (Pulmonata) побережья Средиземного моря и Ев- ропейской Атлантики. [Molluscs of the suborder Ellobioidei (Pulmonata) of the shores of the Mediterranean and European Atlantic]. Вестник зоологии [Vestnik Zoologii]. (1993)4: 3-9.

External links

• AnimalBase info at: [1]
• Monterosato, T. A. di. (1906). Articolo sulle Auriculidae, Assiminidae e Truncatellidae dei mari d'Europa. Il Naturalista Siciliano. New Series, 18 (6): 125–130
• Gray, J.E. (1847). On the classification of the British Mollusca by W E Leach. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. ser. 1, 20: 267-273.
• Wenz, W. (1920). Die Ellobiiden des Mainzer Beckens. Senckenbergiana. 2: 189-192
• Brown, T. (1827). Illustrations of the conchology of Great Britain and Ireland. Drawn from nature. W.H. Lizars and D. Lizars, Edinburgh and S. Highley, London. 144 pp., 52 pls
• Pallary, P. (1900). Coquilles marines du littoral du département d'Oran. Journal de Conchyliologie. 48(3): 211-422
• Martins, A. M. de F. (1999). On the generic separation of Ovatella Bivona, 1832 and Myosotella Monterosato (Pulmonata, Ellobiidae). Iberus. 17(2): 59-75†