''Sydaphera'' 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 ''Sydaphera'' include:
* ''
Sydaphera anxifer''
(Iredale, 1925)
* ''
Sydaphera australis''
(G.B. Sowerby I, 1832)
* ''
Sydaphera christiana''
Verhecken, 2008
* ''
Sydaphera delicosa''
Laseron, 1955
* ''
Sydaphera fulva''
(Lee & Lan, 2002)
* ''
Sydaphera granosa''
(G.B. Sowerby I, 1832b)
* ''
Sydaphera lactea''
(Deshayes, 1830) :
* ''
Sydaphera obnixa''
(Iredale, 1936)
* ''
Sydaphera panamuna''
(Garrard, 1975) :
* ''
Sydaphera spengleriana''
(Deshayes, 1830)
* ''
Sydaphera tasmanica''
(Tenison-Woods, 1876)
;Synonyms:
* ''Sydaphera gigantea''
(Lee & Lan, 2002): synonym of ''Merica (Sydaphera) gigantea''
(Y.-C. Lee & T. C. Lan, 2002) represented as ''
Merica gigantea''
(Y.-C. Lee & T. C. Lan, 2002)
* ''Sydaphera purpuriformis''
(Kiener, 1841): synonym of ''
Merica purpuriformis''
(Kiener, 1841)
* ''Sydaphera undulata''
(G.B. Sowerby II, 1849):
accepted as ''Merica (Sydaphera) undulata''
(G. B. Sowerby II, 1849) represented as ''
Merica undulata
''Merica undulata'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Merica undulata (G. B. Sowerby II, 1849). Accessed through: World Register of Mari ...
''
(G. B. Sowerby II, 1849)
References
* Hemmen, J. (2007). Recent Cancellariidae. Annotated and illustrated catalogue of Recent Cancellariidae. Privately published, Wiesbaden. 428 pp
External links
Iredale, T. (1929). Strange molluscs in Sydney Harbour. Australian Zoologist. 5(4): 337-352
Cancellariidae
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