Myosotella

Myosotella
live Myosotella myosotis
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Ellobiida
Superfamily:	Ellobioidea
Family:	Ellobiidae
Genus:	MyosotellaMonterosato, 1906
Auricula payraudeauiShuttleworth, 1843
Alexia Leach in Gray, 1847 (Invalid: junior homonym of Alexia Stephens, 1833 [Coleoptera]; Nealexia is a replacement name)
Alexia (Kochia) Pallary, 1900
Auricula (Alexia) Leach in Gray, 1847
Kochia Pallary, 1900 (Invalid: junior homonym of Kochia Frech, 1891 [Bivalvia])
Nealexia Wenz, 1920
Ovatella (Alexia) Leach in Gray, 1847
Ovatella (Myosotella) Monterosato, 1906
Tralia (Alexia) Leach, 1847
Volatela Starobogatov, 1993

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Myosotella is a European genus or subgenus (of Ovatella) of small, salt marsh snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Pythiinae of the family Ellobiidae.

It feeds on algae growing on the rocks in a stream.

Species within the genus Myosotella include:

• † Myosotella benoisti (Degrange-Touzin, 1892)
• Myosotella bicolor (Morelet, 1860)
• † Myosotella blesensis (de Morgan, 1917)
• † Myosotella boissyi (Cossmann, 1889)
• † Myosotella depressa (O. Boettger, 1877)
• † Myosotella dumortieri (Fontannes, 1876)
• † Myosotella elongata (Briart & Cornet, 1887)
• † Myosotella fusiformis (A. Bell, 1870)
• † Myosotella mucronata (O. Boettger, 1875)
• † Myosotella munieri (Tournouër, 1872)
• Myosotella myosotis Draparnaud, 1801
• † Myosotella myotis (Brocchi, 1814)
• † Myosotella obovata (Paladilhe, 1874)
• † Myosotella pisolina (Deshayes, 1830)
• † Myosotella raouli (Ivolas & Peyrot, 1900)
• † Myosotella torulosa (Paladilhe, 1874)
• † Myosotella viennensis (Fontannes, 1876)

Species brought into synonymy

• † Myosotella bardini (Tournouër, 1872): synonym of † Tralia bardini (Tournouër, 1872)
• Myosotella denticulata (Montagu, 1803): synonym of Myosotella myosotis (Draparnaud, 1801)
• † Myosotella polyodon (F. Sandberger, 1872): synonym of † Tralia bardini (Tournouër, 1872)

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