''Caribeginella'' is a

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of small

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s in the

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, the margin shellsBouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2014). Caribeginella Espinosa & Ortea, 1998. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=456384 on 2015-02-12

Taxonomy

Based on its taenioglossate

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, and despite its columellar folds, Espinosa & Ortea (1998) originally allocated ''Caribeginella'' to the family

Triviidae Triviidae is a taxonomic family of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Cypraeoidea of the order Littorinimorpha. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Triviidae Troschel, 1863. Accessed through: World Register of Mari ...

. Fehse(2012) transferred ''Caribeginella'' to the

in the synonymy of '' Hyalina'', and suggested that the original authors had, during radula preparation, mixed its radula with that of a species of Triviidae. This view was rejected by Caballer et al. (2013), who treated ''Caribeginella'' as a valid marginelliform genus of uncertain suprageneric classification.

Species

Species within the genus ''Caribeginella'' include: * '' Caribeginella flormarina'' ''Espinosa & Ortea, 1998''

References

* Espinosa J. & Ortea J. (1998) ''Nuevo género y nueva especie de Molusco Gasterópodo maginelliforme (Mollusca: Gastropoda) con rádula taenioglossa.'' Avicennia 8-9: 113–116. Marginellidae Monotypic gastropod genera {{Marginellidae-stub