Quinnia
Encyclopedia
Quinnia is a genus
of minute sea snail
s, marine
gastropod mollusks or micromollusk
s in the family
Seguenziidae
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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 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 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...
Seguenziidae
Seguenziidae
Seguenziidae is a family of extremely small deepwater sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Seguenzioidea .- Taxonomy :...
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Species
Species within the genus Quinnia include:- Quinnia cazioti (Dautzenberg, 1925)
- Quinnia ionica (Watson, 1878)
- Quinnia laetifica Marshall, 1991
- Quinnia limatula Marshall, 1991
- Quinnia patula (Marshall, 1983)
- Quinnia polita (Verco, 1906)
- Quinnia rushi (Dall, 1927)
- Quinnia sykesi (Schepman, 1909)