Myosotella

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Myosotella
live Myosotella myosotis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Ellobiida
Superfamily: Ellobioidea
Family: Ellobiidae
Genus: Myosotella
Monterosato, 1906[1]
Type species
Auricula payraudeaui
Shuttleworth, 1843
Synonyms[2]
  • Alexia Leach in Gray, 1847 (Invalid: junior homonym of Alexia Stephens, 1833 [Coleoptera]; Nealexia is a replacement name)
  • Alexia (Kochia) Pallary, 1900
  • Auricula (Alexia) Leach in Gray, 1847
  • Kochia Pallary, 1900 (Invalid: junior homonym of Kochia Frech, 1891 [Bivalvia])
  • Nealexia Wenz, 1920
  • Ovatella (Alexia) Leach in Gray, 1847
  • Ovatella (Myosotella) Monterosato, 1906
  • Tralia (Alexia) Leach, 1847
  • Volatela Starobogatov, 1993

Myosotella is a European genus or subgenus (of Ovatella) of small, salt marsh snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Pythiinae of the family Ellobiidae.[2]

It feeds on algae growing on the rocks in a stream.

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