Sigapatella

Genus of gastropods From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sigapatella is a genus of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Calyptraeidae, the slipper snails, Chinese hat snails, and cup-and-saucer snails.[2]

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Sigapatella
Dorsal view of a shell of Sigapatella novaezelandiae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Calyptraeidae
Genus: Sigapatella
Lesson, 1831[1]
Type species
Sigapatella novaezelandiae Lesson, R.P., 1830
Species

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Synonyms[2]
  • Clypeola Gray, 1868
  • Sigapatella (Sigapatella) Lesson, 1831 · accepted, alternate representation
  • Sigapatella (Spirogalerus) Finlay & Marwick, 1937 · accepted, alternate representation
  • Trochella Gray 1867
  • Zegalerus Finlay, 1926
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Taxonomy

This group of species was originally classified under Calyptraea (Sigapatella) by Lesson in 1830. In 1990 the subgenus was elevated to the rank of genus as Sigapatella by Beu et al.[3] and confirmed in 2000 by Camacho et al. (2000).[4]

Description

The oval shell has a lateral apex. The interior plate has a submarginal axis. The free margin is concave.[5]

Species

Species within the genus Sigapatella include:


  • Sigapatella (Spirogalerus) lamellaria (Finlay & Marwick, 1937) (synonym: Spirogalerus lamellaria Finlay & Marwick 1937) [15]
Species brought into synonymy
  • Sigapatella maculata Suter, 1913 : synonym of Sigapatella novaezelandiae (Lesson, 1830)

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