Microgaza
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| Microgaza | |
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| Drawing of a shell of Microgaza rotella | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Solariellidae |
| Genus: | Microgaza Dall, 1881 |
| Type species | |
| Solariella (Microgaza) rotella Dall,1881 | |
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Microgaza is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Solariellidae.[1]
The flattened shell is rotelliform[check spelling], resembling a species from the genus Gaza without the reflected lip or umbilical callus. The shell is brilliantly nacreous when fresh. It has a distinctly scalariform umbilicus.[2]