''Nanula'' is a

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Trochidae The Trochidae, common name top-snails or top-shells, are a family of various sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subclass Vetigastropoda. This family is commonly known as the top-snails because in many species the shell resembles ...

, the top snails.Bouchet, P. (2012). ''Nanula'' Thiele, 1924. Accessed through:

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at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=512282 on 2012-11-23

Distribution

The species in this genus are endemic to Australia and occur off

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South Australia South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories ...

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, Victoria and

Western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ...

Species

* '' Nanula flindersi'' Cotton, B.C. & F.K. Godfrey, 1935 * '' Nanula galbina'' (Hedley, C. & W.L. May, 1908) * ''

Nanula tasmanica ''Nanula tasmanica'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snailsMarshall, B. (2013). Nanula tasmanica (Petterd, 1879). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespeci ...

'' Petterd, W.F., 1879

References

* Thiele, 1924, Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 11(1): 54, 69 * Cotton, B.C. (1959). ''South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda'' . Adelaide : South Australian Government Printer. * Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. (1962). ''A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales''. Memoirs of the Australian Museum. 11

External links

To ITIS

To World Register of Marine Species
Trochidae Gastropod genera {{Trochidae-stub