• Source: Microgaza

Microgaza is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Solariellidae.




Description


The flattened shell is rotelliform, resembling a species from the genus Gaza without the reflected lip or umbilical callus. The shell is brilliantly nacreous when fresh. It has a distinctly scalariform umbilicus.




Species


Species within the genus Microgaza include:

† Microgaza bailyi (Gabb, 1861)
Microgaza rotella Dall, 1881
Microgaza vetula Woodring, 1928
Species brought into synonymy

Microgaza alabida (Marshall, 1979) accepted as Archiminolia alabida (B. A. Marshall, 1979)
Microgaza corona Lee Y.C. & Wu W.L., 2001: synonym of Elaphriella corona (Y.-C. Lee & W.-L. Wu, 2001) (original combination)
Microgaza dawsoni (Marshall, 1979) accepted as Archiminolia dawsoni (B. A. Marshall, 1979)
Microgaza fulgens Dall, 1907: synonym of Ilanga fulgens (Dall, 1907)
Microgaza gotoi Poppe, Tagaro & Dekker, 2006: synonym of Ilanga gotoi (Poppe, Tagaro & Dekker, 2006)
Microgaza hurleyi (Marshall, 1979) accepted as Archiminolia hurleyi (B. A. Marshall, 1979)
Microgaza inornata Quinn, 1979: synonym of Microgaza rotella inornata Quinn, 1979
Microgaza iridescens (Habe, 1968): synonym of Archiminolia iridescens (Habe, 1961)
Microgaza katoi (Kuroda & Habe, 1961): synonym of Archiminolia katoi (Kuroda & Habe, 1961)
Microgaza konos Vilvens, 2009: synonym of Ilanga konos (Vilvens, 2009) (original combination)
Microgaza navakaensis Ladd, 1982: synonym of Ilanga navakaensis (Ladd, 1982) (original combination)
Microgaza norfolkensis Marshall, 1999; synonym of Ilanga norfolkensis (B. A. Marshall, 1999)
Microgaza opalina (Shikama & Hayashi, 1977): synonym of Elaphriella opalina (Shikama & Hayashi, 1977) (original combination)
Microgaza ziczac Kuroda & Habe, 1971: synonym of Archiminolia ziczac (Kuroda & Habe, 1971)




References



Williams S.T., Karube S. & Ozawa T. (2008) Molecular systematics of Vetigastropoda: Trochidae, Turbinidae and Trochoidea redefined. Zoologica Scripta 37: 483–506




External links


W.H. Dall (1881), Preliminary Report of dredgings by USS Blake; Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College v. 9 pp. 1–144

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Microgaza
• Microgaza rotella
• Archiminolia iridescens
• Elaphriella opalina
• Ilanga norfolkensis
• Elaphriella corona
• Microgaza vetula
• Ilanga konos
• Ilanga gotoi
• Archiminolia katoi