Cylichna
Encyclopedia
Cylichna is a genus
of sea snail
s or bubble snails, marine
gastropod molluscs in the family
Cylichnidae
, the "chalice bubble snails".
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 sea 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 or bubble snails, marine
Marine (ocean)
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gastropod molluscs 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...
Cylichnidae
Cylichnidae
Cylichnidae, common name the "chalice bubble snails" or "canoe bubble snails" is a family of sea snails or bubble snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Philinoidea.- 2005 taxonomy :...
, the "chalice bubble snails".
Species
Species within the genus Cylichna include:- Cylichna aethiopica
- Cylichna affinis
- Cylichna alba (T. Brown, 1827) - white chalice-bubble
- Cylichna algoensis
- Cylichna andersoni
- Cylichna arachis : synonym of Adamnestia arachis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)
- Cylichna arthuri Dautzenberg, 1929
- Cylichna atahualpa
- Cylichna ationsa
- Cylichna attanosa
- Cylichna attonsa Carpenter, 1865
- Cylichna atyoides : synonym of Sphaerocylichna atyoides (Thiele, 1925)
- Cylichna aula
- Cylichna bizona
- Cylichna brevissima
- Cylichna bruguierei
- Cylichna bulloides DellRichard DellDr Richard Kenneth Dell was a New Zealand malacologist. He was born in Auckland. As a young boy, he took an interest in shells, collecting them from the shores of Waitemata Harbour. He even managed to start a "museum" in his backyard...
, 1956 : synonym of Sphaerocylichna incommoda (E. A. Smith, 1891) - Cylichna chevreuxi Dautzenberg, 1889
- Cylichna consobrina
- Cylichna costata
- Cylichna crebripunctata (Jeffreys, 1881)
- Cylichna crispula
- Cylichna cylindracea (Pennant, 1777)
- Cylichna densistriata
- Cylichna diegensis (Dall, 1919) - San Diego chalice-bubble
- Cylichna discus Watson, 1886
- Cylichna dulcis
- Cylichna eburnea A. E. Verrill, 1885 - ivory chalice-bubble
- Cylichna fantasma (Baker and Hanna, 1927)
- Cylichna gelida (Smith, 1907)
- Cylichna georgiana (Strebel, 1908)
- Cylichna gouldiiCylichna gouldiiCylichna gouldii is a species of very small sea snail, a small bubble snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cylichnidae.This bubble snail lives in the Western Atlantic Ocean and has been found in Nova Scotia , Maine and Massachusetts....
(Couthouy, 1839) - Cylichna grimaldii Dautzenberg
- Cylichna grovesi Valdès , 2008
- Cylichna intermissia curta
- Cylichna involuta
- Cylichna jaba
- Cylichna lemchei Bouchet & Warén, 1979
- Cylichna linearis Jeffreys, 1867 - lined chalice-bubble
- Cylichna luticola
- Cylichna magna Lemche, 1941
- Cylichna modesta
- Cylichna mongei
- Cylichna nida
- Cylichna nucleolus (ReeveLovell Augustus ReeveLovell Augustus Reeve was an English conchologist.Lovell Augustus Reeve was initially apprenticed to a grocer of Ludgate Hill between 1827 and '34...
, 1855) - kernel chalice-bubble - Cylichna obscura Sykes, 1903
- Cylichna occulata
- Cylichna occulta (Mighels and C. B. Adams, 1842) - concealed chalice-bubble
- Cylichna occulta densistriata
- Cylichna oryza
- Cylichna ovata Jeffreys, 1871
- Cylichna parallela
- Cylichna parvula Jeffreys, 1883
- Cylichna petiti Dautzenberg, 1923
- Cylichna piettei Dautzenberg & Fischer H., 1896
- Cylichna propecylindracea (de Gregorio, 1890)
- Cylichna protracta
- Cylichna proxima
- Cylichna pumila
- Cylichna pusilla
- Cylichna quercinensis
- Cylichna secalina
- Cylichna semisulcata
- Cylichna similis
- Cylichna stephensae
- Cylichna striata
- Cylichna subcylindrica
- Cylichna sumatrana
- Cylichna sundaica
- Cylichna tanyumphalos Valdès , 2008
- Cylichna tenuissima
- Cylichna thetidisCylichna thetidisCylichna thetidis is a species of sea snail or bubble snail, a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Cylichnidae, the chalice bubble snails or canoe bubble snails.-References:...
Hedley, 1903 - Cylichna tubulosa
- Cylichna umbilicata
- Cylichna veleronis
- Cylichna venustula
- Cylichna verrillii Dall, 1889
- Cylichna vortex (Dall, 1881)
- Cylichna zelandicaCylichna zelandicaCylichna zelandica is a species of sea snail or bubble snail, a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Cylichnidae, the chalice bubble snails or canoe bubble snails.-References:...
T.W. Kirk, 1880