Merica
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| Merica | |
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| Apertural view of shell of Merica sinensis (Reeve, 1856) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Volutoidea |
| Family: | Cancellariidae |
| Genus: | Merica H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854 |
| Type species | |
| Cancellaria melanostoma G.B. Sowerby II, 1849 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Merica is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.[1]
