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Skeneidae The Skeneidae are a speciose family of minute to small marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Trochoidea.Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2013). Skeneidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php ...

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Liotiidae Liotiidae is a family of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Vetigastropoda (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).Gofas, S. (2013). Liotiidae Gray, 1850. Accessed through: World Register of ...

Description

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. The peristome is continuous. The white operculum is multispiral with a central nucleus.Tate, R. 1899. A revision of the Australian Cyclostrematidae and Liotiidae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 23(2): 213-229

Species

Species within the genus ''Lodderia'' include: * '' Lodderia coatsiana'' (Melvill & Standen, 1912) * '' Lodderia eumorpha'' (Suter, 1908) ** '' Lodderia eumorpha cookiana'' (

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, 1952) ** '' Lodderia eumorpha eumorpha'' (

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, 1908) * '' Lodderia iota'' (

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, 1940) * '' Lodderia lodderae'' Petterd, 1884 * † '' Lodderia mandulana'' C. Beets, 1984 * ''

Lodderia novemcarinata ''Lodderia novemcarinata'' is a minute, sea snail or micromollusc, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Skeneidae.Bouchet, P. (2013). Lodderia novemcarinata (Melvill, 1906). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.ma ...

'' (Melvill, 1906) * '' Lodderia waitemata'' (

, 1940) ;Species brought into synonymy: * ''Lodderia virginiae'' (Jousseaume, 1872): synonym of '' Cyclostrema virginiae'' Jousseaume, 1872

References

* Powell A. W. B., ''New Zealand Mollusca'', William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979
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