Nanopsis (gastropod)

Nanopsis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
informal group Ptenoglossa

Superfamily: Triphoroidea
Family: Cerithiopsidae
Genus: Nanopsis
Cecalupo & Robba, 2010
Type species
Cerithiopsis tubercularis var. nana Jeffreys, 1867
Species

See text.

Nanopsis is a genus of very small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cerithiopsidae.[1]

This genus is no longer accepted as the name is preoccupied by Nanopsis Freytag, 1974 (an insect of order Homoptera)

Species

Species in the genus Nanopsis have become synonyms, accepted under Cerithiopsis or Joculator, in most cases in the original combination:

References

  1. Bouchet, P. (2011). Nanopsis Cecalupo & Robba, 2010. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=558517 on 2012-06-15


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