''Ethaliella'' is a

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Trochidae The Trochidae, common name top-snails or top-shells, are a family of various sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subclass Vetigastropoda. This family is commonly known as the top-snails because in many species the shell resembles ...

, the top snails.Bouchet, P. (2012). ''Ethaliella'' Pilsbry, 1905. Accessed through:

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at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=413461 on 2012-11-23

Description

This genus is characterized by a depressed, openly umbilicated, smoothish shell. The peristome is obtuse. The columellar margin is dilated, partly vaulting over the umbilicus, which is radially sulcate within and has a very low, wide and rounded marginal cord. This genus comprises species related to '' Monilea'', ''

Ethalia ''Ethalia'' is a genus of sea snails, marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Umboniinae of the family (biology), family Trochidae, the top snails. Description The species are moderate-sized. The orbicular shell is turbinatel ...

'' and '' Isanda'', but with features of the columellar lip and umbilicus unlike either. ''

Minolia ''Minolia'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Solariellidae. A. Adams named the genus from Mino-Sima, the little island near Niphon (Japan). ''Minolia'' was in older textbooks regarded as a subgenus of ''Margarita ...

'' and its boreal ally '' Solariella'' differ by the almost or quite unexpanded columellar margin. Henry Pilsbry, New Japanese Marine Mollusca; Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol. 57 (1905), pp. 101-122
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Distribution

This marine genus occurs off

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, the

Philippines The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no), * bik, Republika kan Filipinas * ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas * cbk, República de Filipinas * hil, Republ ...

and in the

East China Sea The East China Sea is an arm of the Western Pacific Ocean, located directly offshore from East China. It covers an area of roughly . The sea’s northern extension between mainland China and the Korean Peninsula is the Yellow Sea, separated b ...

Species

Species within the genus ''Ethaliella'' include: * ''

Ethaliella capillata ''Ethaliella capillata'' is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.Bouchet, P. (2014). Ethaliella capillata (Gould, 1862). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www. ...

'' (Gould, 1862) * '' Ethaliella floccata'' (Sowerby III, 1903) * '' Ethaliella pulchella'' (A. Adams, 1855) * '' Ethaliella rhodomphala'' (E.A. Smith, 1903)

References

External links

GenBank

World Register of Marine Species
{{Taxonbar, from=Q5402850 Trochidae Gastropod genera