Incatella
Encyclopedia
Incatella is a genus
of sea snail
s, marine
gastropod mollusks in the family
Turritellidae
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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 sea snail
Sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for those snails that normally live in saltwater, marine gastropod molluscs....
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 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...
Turritellidae
Turritellidae
Turritellidae, the tower snails, is a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Sorbeoconcha.These snails are filter feeders...
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Species
Species within the genus Incatella include:- Incatella cingulata (Sowerby, 1825)
- Incatella cingulatiformis (Möricke, 1896)
- Incatella chilensis (Sowerby, 1846)
- Incatella leptogramma (Philippi, 1887)
- Incatella hupei Nielsen
- Incatella trilirata (Philippi, 1887)