Lodderia
Genus of gastropods
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::summary Genus of gastropods ::
| fossil_range = Miocene to Recent | image = Lodderia novemcarinata 001.jpg | image_caption = Drawing with two views of Lodderia novemcarinata | taxon = Lodderia | authority = Tate, 1899 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text | type_species = Lodderia lodderae | type_species_authority = Petterd, W.F., 1884 | synonyms_ref = | synonyms = Circulus (Lodderia) Tate, 1899
Lodderia is a genus of minute sea snails or micromolluscs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Skeneidae. This genus belonged previously to the family Liotiidae.
Description
The shell has a depressed turbinate shape and a deep umbilicus. The sculpture consists of a number of spiral keels. The circular aperture is oblique and shows a prominent varix. The peristome is continuous. The white operculum is multispiral with a central nucleus.
Species
Species within the genus Lodderia include:
- Lodderia coatsiana (Melvill & Standen, 1912)
- Lodderia eumorpha (Suter, 1908)
- Lodderia eumorpha cookiana (Dell, 1952)
- Lodderia eumorpha eumorpha (Suter, 1908)
- Lodderia iota (Powell, 1940)
- Lodderia lodderae Petterd, 1884
- † Lodderia mandulana C. Beets, 1984
- Lodderia novemcarinata (Melvill, 1906)
- Lodderia waitemata (Powell, 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
- GBIF
References
- Rosenberg, G. (2012). Lodderia. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=532002 on 2012-06-21
- Tate, R. 1899. A revision of the Australian Cyclostrematidae and Liotiidae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 23(2): 213-229
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