Lirobarleeia is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Barleeiidae.[2]

Lirobarleeia
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Barleeiidae
Genus: Lirobarleeia
Ponder, 1983 [1]
Type species
Alvania nigrescens
Bartsch & Rehder, 1939

Species

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Species within the genus Lirobarleeia include:

Taxon inquirendum
Species brought into synonymy
  • Lirobarleeia nigrescens (Bartsch & Rehder, 1939): synonym of Lirobarleeia galapagensis (Bartsch, 1911)

References

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  • Hertz J. & Ponder W.F., 1996. Lirobarleeia Ponder, 1983 (Mollusca, Gastropoda): proposed designation of Alvania nigrescens Bartsch & Rehder, 1939 as the type species. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 53(case 2935):171-172.