''Larochea'' is a
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of minute slug-like
sea snail
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s,
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gastropod
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mollusc
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s in the
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Larocheidae
Larocheidae is a family of small to minute sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs or micromollusc
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.
Species
Species within the genus ''Larochea'' include:
*''
Larochea miranda''
Finlay, 1927
*''
Larochea scitula''
Marshall, 1993
*''
Larochea secunda''
Powell
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, 1937
*''
Larochea spirata''
Geiger & B.A. Marshall, 2012
References
*
Powell A. W. B., ''New Zealand Mollusca'',
William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979
Oxfordjournals.org info* Geiger D.L. (2012) ''Monograph of the little slit shells. Volume 1. Introduction, Scissurellidae. pp. 1-728. Volume 2. Anatomidae, Larocheidae, Depressizonidae, Sutilizonidae, Temnocinclidae. pp. 729-1291''. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Monographs Number 7
Larocheidae
Gastropods of New Zealand
Taxa named by Harold John Finlay
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