Benthonella

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Benthonella
Shell of Benthonella tenella (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Rissoidae
Genus: Benthonella
Dall, 1889
Type species
Benthonella tenella
(Jeffreys, 1869)
Synonyms
  • Assiminopsis Locard, 1897
  • Hela Jeffreys, 1870 (preoccupied by Hela Muenster, 1840)

Benthonella is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Rissoidae.[1]

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