Omalogyra
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Omalogyra is a genus of minute marine
gastropod molluscs in the family
Omalogyridae
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This genus includes the smallest gastropods known to science, with adult sizes of 1 mm and even less.
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 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...
Omalogyridae
Omalogyridae
Omalogyridae are a family of minute and microscopic sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the informal group Lower Heterobranchia.-Genera:Genera within the family Omalogyridae include:* Ammonicera Vayssiére, 1893...
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This genus includes the smallest gastropods known to science, with adult sizes of 1 mm and even less.
Species
Species within the genus Omalogyra include:- Omalogyra atomus (PhilippiRodolfo Amando PhilippiRodolfo Amando Philippi was a German-Chilean paleontologist and zoologist....
, 1841) - atom snail - Omalogyra densicostata (Jeffreys, 1884)
- Omalogyra fuscaOmalogyra fuscaOmalogyra fusca is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Omalogyridae.-References:* Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1...
SuterHenry SuterHenry Suter was a New Zealand zoologist, naturalist, palaeontologist, and malacologist.- Biography :...
, 1908(Jeffreys, 1884) - Omalogyra japonica
- Omalogyra planorbis (DallW. H. DallWilliam Healey Dall was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska...
, 1927)