Skenea

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Skenea
Different views of a shell of Skenea catenoides
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Skeneidae
Genus: Skenea
Fleming, 1824
Type species
Helix serpuloides
Montagu, 1808
Synonyms[1]

Delphinoidea T. Brown, 1827

Skenea is a genus of small to minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Skeneidae.[2]

This genus is type genus for the family Skeneidae. It has been used as a general receptacle for species that are probably unrelated to the type species Helix serpuloides Montagu, 1808, such as Skenea divae Carrozza & Van Aartsen, 2001 and Skenea nilarum Engl, 1996.[3]

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