''Leucotina'' is a
genus
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of small
sea snail
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s,
marine
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heterobranch
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gastropod
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mollusc
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s or
micromollusc
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s in the family
Amathinidae
Amathinidae, is a taxonomic family mostly consisting of small and minute sea snails, marine heterobranch gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the superfamily Pyramidelloidea.
Together with Pyramidellidae, Ebalidae, Turbonillidae, Odostomid ...
.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Leucotina A. Adams, 1860. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=181116 on 2021-05-06]
Species
* ''
Leucotina adamsi''
Kuroda & Habe, 1971
* ''
Leucotina ampulla''
Saurin, 1962
* ''
Leucotina casta''
(A. Adams, 1853)
* ''
Leucotina dianae''
(A. Adams, 1854)
* ''
Leucotina elongata''
(van Aartsen, Gittenberger & Goud, 1998)
* ''
Leucotina elongata''
G. B. Sowerby III, 1892
* ''
Leucotina eva''
Thiele, 1925
* ''
Leucotina exarata''
A. Adams, 1860
* † ''
Leucotina granulocostata''
Laws, 1939
* ''
Leucotina gratiosa''
Melvill, 1898
* ''
Leucotina helva''
Hedley, 1900
* ''
Leucotina insculpta''
A. Adams, 1860
* ''
Leucotina japonica''
(A. Adams, 1860)
* ''
Leucotina jaskensis''
Melvill, 1897
* ''
Leucotina knopi''
Poppe & Tagaro, 2010
* ''
Leucotina lilyae''
(van Aartsen, Gittenberger & Goud, 1998)
* ''
Leucotina micra''
(Pritchard & Gatliff, 1900)
* ''
Leucotina natalensis''
E. A. Smith, 1910
* † ''
Leucotina ovalis''
(Hutton, 1885)
* ''
Leucotina padangensis''
Thiele, 1925
* † ''
Leucotina praecursoria''
(Suter, 1917)
* ''
Leucotina punctata''
A. Adams, 1860
* ''
Leucotina puncturata''
(E. A. Smith, 1872)
* ''
Leucotina reginae''
Saurin, 1959
* ''
Leucotina speciosa''
(A. Adams, 1853)
* ''
Leucotina sulcata''
A. Adams, 1860
;Species brought into synonymy:
* ''Leucotina ambigua''
(Hutton, 1885): synonym of ''Leucotina casta''
(A. Adams, 1853)
* ''Leucotina amoena''
(A. Adams, 1853): synonym of ''
Monotygma amoena''
(A. Adams, 1853)
* ''Leucotina digitalis''
(Dall & Bartsch, 1906): synonym of ''
Monotygma amoena''
(A. Adams, 1853)
* ''Leucotina esther''
Angas, 1867: synonym of ''Leucotina casta''
(A. Adams, 1853)
* ''Leucotina formosa''
W. H. Turton, 1932: synonym of ''Leucotina elongata''
G. B. Sowerby III, 1892
* ''Leucotina niphonensis''
A. Adams, 1860: synonym of ''Leucotina dianae''
(A. Adams, 1854)
* ''Leucotina sagamiensis''
Kuroda & Habe, 1971: synonym of ''
Maxacteon sagamiensis
''Maxacteon'' is a genus of small predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Acteonidae, the barrel bubble snails.Bouchet, P.; Rosenberg, G. (2015). Maxacteon Rudman, 1971. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Reg ...
''
(Kuroda & Habe, 1971) (original combination)
* ''Leucotina sundaica''
Thiele, 1925: synonym of ''Leucotina speciosa''
(A. Adams, 1853)
References
* Hori, S. & Tsuchida, E. (1995). A revision of the systematic position of genus Leucotina Gastropoda: Heterostropha). Venus. 54: 279-293
External links
Adams, A. (1860). On some new genera and species of Mollusca from Japan. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (3) 5: 299-303Cossmann, M. (1895). Essais de paléoconchologie comparée. Première livraison. Paris, The author and Comptoir Géologique. 159 pp., 7 pls.Beu A.G. (2004) Marine Mollusca of oxygen isotope stages of the last 2 million years in New Zealand. Part 1: Revised generic positions and recognition of warm-water and cool-water migrants. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 34(2): 111-265.
Amathinidae
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