''Glabella'' is a

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of small tropical and warm-water

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gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...

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s in the

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Marginellidae Marginellidae, or the margin shells, are a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic family (biology), family of small, often colorful, sea snails, Marine (ocean), marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Neogastropoda. Taxonomy The higher classification of ...

, the margin snails.

Taxonomy

It is debatable whether it is justified to distinguish this genus from ''

Marginella ''Marginella'' is a very large genus of small tropical and temperate sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Marginellinae of the family Marginellidae, the margin snails. It is the type genus of the family. The shells of species ...

'' s. str. without a comprehensive phylogenetic hypothesis of the family. However the two genera cannot be objective synonyms because ''

Marginella glabella ''Marginella glabella '' is a species of colorful small sea snail, a marine gastropod in the family Marginellidae, the margin shells. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Marginella glabella (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register ...

'' (Linnaeus, 1758) is not one of the species originally included in ''Glabella''.

Species

According to the

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(WoRMS), the following species with valid names are included within the genus ''Glabella'' :WoRMS : Glabella; accessed : 7 September 2010
/ref> * '' Glabella adansoni'' Kiener, 1834 * '' Glabella ansonae'' Clover, 1976 * '' Glabella bellii'' G.B. Sowerby II, 1846 * '' Glabella bifasciata'' (Lamarck, 1822) * '' Glabella davisiana'' Marrat, 1877 * '' Glabella denticulata'' Link, 1807 * '' Glabella faba'' (Linnaeus, 1758) * '' Glabella fumigata'' (Gofas & Fernandes, 1994) * '' Glabella harpaeformis'' G.B. Sowerby II, 1846 * '' Glabella macua'' Boyer, Rosado & Gori, 2018 * '' Glabella mirabilis'' H. Adams, 1869 * '' Glabella mozambicana'' Boyer, 2014 * '' Glabella nodata'' (Hinds, 1844) * '' Glabella obtusa'' G.B. Sowerby II, 1846 * '' Glabella omanensis'' Boyer, 2014 * '' Glabella pseudofaba'' G.B. Sowerby II, 1846 * '' Glabella reeveana'' Petit, 1851 * '' Glabella rosadoi'' Kilburn, 1994 * '' Glabella rotunda'' Boyer, 2014 *'' Glabella tyermani'' (Marrat, 1876) * ''

Glabella xicoi ''Glabella xicoi'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Marginellidae, the margin snails. Description Distribution This marine species occurs off Ghana Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Rep ...

'' (Boyer, Ryall & Wakefield, 1999) * '' Glabella youngi'' Kilburn, 1977 ;Species brought into synonymy: *'' Glabella arenaria'' Mörch, 1852: synonym of ''Glabella denticulata'' (Link, 1807) * ''Glabella ferreirai'' Alves, 1996 synonym of ''Glabella mozambicana'' Boyer, 2014 * ''Glabella henrikasi'' (Bozzetti, 1995): synonym of '' Marginella henrikasi'' Bozzetti, 1995 * ''Glabella lucani'' (Jousseaume, 1884): synonym of '' Marginella lucani'' Jousseaume, 1884

References

* Cossignani T. (2006). Marginellidae & Cystiscidae of the World. L'Informatore Piceno. 408pp

External links

Swainson W. (1840) ''A treatise on malacology or shells and shell-fish''. London, Longman. viii + 419 pp.

Hinds R. B. (1844). Descriptions of Marginellae collected during the voyage of H. M. S. Sulphur, and from the collection of H. Cuming Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 12: 72-77.

Gray, J. E. (1847). A list of the genera of recent Mollusca, their synonyma and types. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 15: 129-219.

Coovert G.A. & Coovert H.K. (1995) Revision of the supraspecific classification of marginelliform gastropods. The Nautilus 109(2-3): 43-110
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