Conassiminea
Encyclopedia
Conassiminea is a genus
of minute operculate snail
s, marine
gastropod mollusks or micromollusk
s in the family
Assimineidae
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Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of minute operculate snail
Snail
Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
s, marine
Marine (ocean)
Marine is an umbrella term. As an adjective it is usually applicable to things relating to the sea or ocean, such as marine biology, marine ecology and marine geology...
gastropod mollusks or micromollusk
Micromollusk
A micromollusk is a descriptive term for a shelled mollusk which is extremely small, even at full adult size. The word is usually, but not exclusively, applied to marine mollusks, although in addition, numerous species of land snails and freshwater mollusks also reach adult size at very small...
s in the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Assimineidae
Assimineidae
Assimineidae is a family of minute snails with an operculum that live in saltwater, freshwater or on the land; they are mostly aquatic gastropod mollusks or micromollusks, in the clade Littorinimorpha.- Ecology :...
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Species
Species within the genus Conassiminea include:- Conassiminea studdertiConassiminea studdertiConassiminea studderti is a species of minute operculate snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Assimineidae....
Fukuda & Ponder, 2006 - Conassiminea zheniConassiminea zheniConassiminea zheni is a species of minute operculate snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Assimineidae....
Fukuda & Ponder, 2006