Metassiminea
Genus of gastropods
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Metastasis is a genus of minute, salt-tolerant snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks, or micromollusks, in the subfamily Ekadantinae of the family Assimineidae.[1]
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| Metassiminea | |
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| Shell of Metassiminea philippinica (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Truncatelloidea |
| Family: | Assimineidae |
| Genus: | Metassiminea Thiele, 1927 |
| Type species | |
| Assiminea philippinica O. Boettger, 1887 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Assiminea (Metassiminea) Thiele, 1927 (original rank) | |
Species
- Metassiminea philippinica (O. Boettger, 1887)
