Maesiella is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Pseudomelatomidae |
| Genus: | Maesiella McLean, 1971[1] |
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| Maesiella maesae McLean & Poorman, 1971
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The generic name Maesiella is named in honor of American malacologist Virginia Orr Maes.[3]
Species edit
Species within the genus Maesiella include:
- Maesiella dominguezi (J. & W. Gibson-Smith, 1983)
- Maesiella hermanita (Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932)[4]
- Maesiella maesae McLean & Poorman, 1971[5]
- Maesiella punctatostriata (Carpenter, 1856)[6]
- Species brought into synonymy
- Maesiella solitaria Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932: synonym of Maesiella punctatostriata (Carpenter, 1856)
References edit
- ^ McLean (1971). Veliger 14: 123.
- ^ a b Maesiella McLean, 1971. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 15 April 2010.
- ^ Robertson R. (1987). "Virginia Orr Maes (1920-1986): Biography and Malacological Bibliography". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 139: 527-532.
- ^ Maesiella hermanita (Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 15 April 2010.
- ^ Maesiella maesae McLean & Poorman, 1971. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 15 April 2010.
- ^ Maesiella punctatostriata (Carpenter, 1856). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 15 April 2010.
External links edit
- McLean, J.H. (1971) A revised classification of the family Turridae, with the proposal of new subfamilies, genera, and subgenera from the Eastern Pacific. The Veliger, 14, 114–130
- Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
- Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77(3): 273-308
- Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Pseudomelatomidae
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