Myosotella
Genus of gastropods
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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]
| Myosotella | |
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| live Myosotella myosotis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Ellobiida |
| Superfamily: | Ellobioidea |
| Family: | Ellobiidae |
| Genus: | Myosotella Monterosato, 1906[1] |
| Type species | |
| Auricula payraudeaui Shuttleworth, 1843 | |
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It feeds on algae growing on the rocks in a stream.
Species
Species within the genus Myosotella include:
- † Myosotella benoisti (Degrange-Touzin, 1892)
- Myosotella bicolor (Morelet, 1860)
- † Myosotella blesensis (de Morgan, 1917)
- † Myosotella boissyi (Cossmann, 1889)
- † Myosotella depressa (O. Boettger, 1877)
- † Myosotella dumortieri (Fontannes, 1876)
- † Myosotella elongata (Briart & Cornet, 1887)
- † Myosotella fusiformis (A. Bell, 1870)
- † Myosotella mucronata (O. Boettger, 1875)
- † Myosotella munieri (Tournouër, 1872)
- Myosotella myosotis Draparnaud, 1801
- † Myosotella myotis (Brocchi, 1814)
- † Myosotella obovata (Paladilhe, 1874)
- † Myosotella pisolina (Deshayes, 1830)
- † Myosotella raouli (Ivolas & Peyrot, 1900)
- † Myosotella torulosa (Paladilhe, 1874)
- † Myosotella viennensis (Fontannes, 1876)
- Species brought into synonymy
- † Myosotella bardini (Tournouër, 1872): synonym of † Tralia bardini (Tournouër, 1872)
- Myosotella denticulata (Montagu, 1803): synonym of Myosotella myosotis (Draparnaud, 1801)
- † Myosotella polyodon (F. Sandberger, 1872): synonym of † Tralia bardini (Tournouër, 1872)
