Balanetta
Genus of gastropods
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Balanetta is a genus of small, often colorful, sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the taxonomic family of the margin shells (Marginellidae).[1]
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| Balanetta | |
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| Shell of Balanetta baylii (syntype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Volutoidea |
| Family: | Marginellidae |
| Genus: | Balanetta Jousseaume, 1875 |
| Type species | |
| Balanetta baylii Jousseaume, 1875 | |
Species
- Balanetta amydrozona (Melvill, 1906)
- Balanetta baylii Jousseaume, 1875
- Balanetta cylichnella (May, 1917)
- Balanetta pisum (Reeve, 1865)
- Balanetta triptycta Le Renard & van Nieulande, 1985
- Species brought into synonymy
- Balanetta baylei Jousseaume, 1875: synonym of Balanetta baylii Jousseaume, 1875 (alternative original spelling; spelling baylii selected by First Reviser choice by Tomlin (1917))
- Balanetta decaryi Bavay, 1920: synonym of Ovaginella decaryi (Bavay, 1920)
- Balanetta ovulum (G.B. Sowerby II, 1846): synonym of Ovaginella ovulum (G.B. Sowerby II, 1846)
