Ponderiola
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| Ponderiola | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Turbinelloidea |
| Family: | Costellariidae |
| Genus: | Ponderiola Fedosov, Bouchet, Dekkers, Gori, S.-I Huang, Kantor, Lemarcis, Marrow, Ratti, Rosenberg, R. Salisbury, Zvonareva & Puillandre, 2025 |
| Type species | |
| Mitra (Costellaria) nitidissima Melvill & Standen, 1895 | |
Ponderiola is a genus of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Costellariidae.[1]
This genus is named after Winston Ponder, who has contributed immensely to the knowledge of systematics and evolution of molluscs. [1]