Macleaniella
Encyclopedia
Macleaniella is a genus
of sea snail
s, deep-sea limpet
s, marine
gastropod mollusks in the family
Cocculinidae
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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, deep-sea limpet
Limpet
Limpet is a common name for a number of different kinds of saltwater and freshwater snails ; it is applied to those snails that have a simple shell which is more or less conical in shape, and either is not spirally coiled, or appears not to be coiled in the adult snails.The name limpet is most...
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...
Cocculinidae
Cocculinidae
Cocculinidae is a family of sea snails, deep-sea limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Cocculiniformia .- Genera :Genera within the family Cocculinidae include:...
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Species
Species within the genus Macleaniella include:- Macleaniella moskaleviMacleaniella moskaleviMacleaniella moskalevi is a species of sea snail, deep-sea limpet, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cocculinidae.-Description:The shell of Macleaniella moskalevi is small and cap-shaped. The maximum recorded shell length is 5.17 mm....
Leal & Harasewych, 1999