Amathina

Amathina
A shell of Amathina tricarinata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
Superfamily: Pyramidelloidea
Family: Amathinidae
Genus: Amathina
Gray, 1842[1]

Amathina is a genus of small sea snails, marine heterobranch gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family Amathinidae.[2]

Amathina is the type genus of the family Amathinidae.[3]

Species

Species within the genus Amathina include:

References

  1. Gray (1842). Syn. cont. Brit. Mus., ed. 44: 63.
  2. WoRMS (2010). Amathina Gray, 1842. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=181104 on 2011-03-15
  3. Bouchet P.; Rocroi J.-P.; Frýda J.; Hausdorf B.; Ponder W.; Valdés Á. & Warén A. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology. Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1-2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
  4. Gofas, S. (2010). Amathina tricarinata (Linnaeus, 1767). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=181105 on 2011-03-15
  5. WoRMS (2010). Amathina tricostata (Gmelin, 1790). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215181 on 2011-03-15


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