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Skenea
Genus of gastropods / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Skenea is a genus of small to minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Skeneidae.[2]
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Skenea | |
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Different views of a shell of Skenea catenoides | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
Order: | Trochida |
Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
Family: | Skeneidae |
Genus: | Skenea Fleming, 1824 |
Type species | |
Helix serpuloides Montagu, 1808 | |
Synonyms[1] | |
Delphinoidea T. Brown, 1827 |
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This genus is type genus for the family Skeneidae. It has been used as a general receptacle for species that are probably unrelated to the type species Helix serpuloides Montagu, 1808, such as Skenea divae Carrozza & Van Aartsen, 2001 and Skenea nilarum Engl, 1996.[3]