''Iphinopsis'' is a
genus
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of
sea snail
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s, marine
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 ...
mollusk
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s in the
family
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Cancellariidae
Cancellariidae, common name the nutmeg snails or nutmeg shells, are a family of small to medium-large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Neogastropoda. Some of the shells of the species in this family resemble a nutmeg seed.
Di ...
, the nutmeg snails.
Species
Species within the genus ''Iphinopsis'' include:
* ''
Iphinopsis alba''
Bouchet & Warén, 1985
* ''
Iphinopsis bathyalis''
(Okutani, 1964)
* ''
Iphinopsis boucheti''
Okutani, Hashimoto & Sasaki, 2004
* ''
Iphinopsis choshiensis''
(Habe, 1958)
* ''
Iphinopsis fuscoapicata''
Bouchet & Warén, 1985
* ''
Iphinopsis inflata''
(Friele, 1879)
* ''
Iphinopsis kelseyi''
(Dall, 1908)
* ''
Iphinopsis kulanda''
(Garrard, 1975)
* ''
Iphinopsis nuda''
Dall, 1927
* ''
Iphinopsis splendens''
Simone & Birman, 2006
* ''
Iphinopsis traverseensis
''Iphinopsis traverseensis'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family
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''
(A.H. Clarke, 1961)
;Species brought into synonymy:
* ''Iphinopsis euthymei''
(Barnard, 1960): synonym of ''
Nothoadmete euthymei''
(Barnard, 1960)
* ''Iphinopsis kroyeri''
(Philippi, 1849):
synonym of ''
Neoiphinoe kroeyeri
''Neoiphinoe kroeyeri'' is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Capulidae
The Capulidae, the cap snails or cap shells, are a taxonomic family of limpet-like sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade ...
''
(Philippi, 1849)
References
* Habe T. (1958). Descriptions of ten new gastropod species. Venus. 20(1): 32-42
External links
Bouchet, P. & Warén, A. (1985). Revision of the Northeast Atlantic bathyal and abyssal Neogastropoda excluding Turridae (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Bollettino Malacologico. supplement 1: 121-296Hemmen J. (2007) Recent Cancellariidae. Annotated and illustrated catalogue of Recent Cancellariidae. Privately published, Wiesbaden. 428 pp. [With amendments and corrections taken from Petit R.E. (2012) A critique of, and errata for, Recent Cancellariidae by Jens Hemmen, 2007. Conchologia Ingrata 9: 1-8
Cancellariidae
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