Aspella

Genus of gastropods From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Aspella is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]

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Aspella
Shell of Aspella aclydis (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Aspellinae
Genus: Aspella
Mörch, 1877
Type species
Ranella anceps
Lamarck, 1822
Species

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Synonyms[1]

Ranella (Aspella) Mörch, 1877 (original rank)

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Species

Species within the genus Aspella include:

Species brought into synonymy
  • Aspella bakeri Hertlein & A. M. Strong, 1951: synonym of Dermomurex bakeri (Hertlein & A. M. Strong, 1951) (original combination)
  • Aspella elizabethae McGinty, 1940: synonym of Dermomurex elizabethae (McGinty, 1940) (original combination)
  • Aspella paupercula (C. B. Adams, 1850):[23] synonym of Dermomurex pauperculus (C. B. Adams, 1850)
  • Aspella undata Hedley, 1907: synonym of Austroclavus undatus (Hedley, 1907) (original combination)

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