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Finella
Sign in to saveFinella is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Scaliolidae.
Species
Dubious Cerith
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderCaenogastropoda incertae sedis
- FamilyScaliolidae
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Finella is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Scaliolidae.
This genus has been assigned in the course of time to different families by different authors: Rissoidae, Cerithiidae, Dialidae, Obtortionidae, Finellidae and Diastomatidae Morphological and anatomical studies by Winston Ponder in 1994 established that the genera Finella and Scaliola didn't belong in the above-mentioned families and he brought them in a new family Scaliolidae. This was supported in 1982 by Healy through the study of the ultrastructure on the spermatozoa.