Glabella (gastropod) explained

Glabella is a genus of small tropical and warm-water sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Marginellidae, the margin snails.

Taxonomy

It is debatable whether it is justified to distinguish this genus from Marginella s. str. without a comprehensive phylogenetic hypothesis of the family. However the two genera cannot be objective synonyms because Marginella glabella (Linnaeus, 1758) is not one of the species originally included in Glabella.

Species

According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), the following species with valid names are included within the genus Glabella :^[1]

• Glabella adansoni Kiener, 1834
• Glabella ansonae Clover, 1976
• Glabella bellii G.B. Sowerby II, 1846
• Glabella bifasciata (Lamarck, 1822)
• Glabella davisiana Marrat, 1877
• Glabella denticulata Link, 1807
• Glabella faba (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Glabella fumigata (Gofas & Fernandes, 1994)
• Glabella harpaeformis G.B. Sowerby II, 1846
• Glabella macua Boyer, Rosado & Gori, 2018
• Glabella mirabilis H. Adams, 1869
• Glabella mozambicana Boyer, 2014
• Glabella nodata (Hinds, 1844)
• Glabella obtusa G.B. Sowerby II, 1846
• Glabella omanensis Boyer, 2014
• Glabella pseudofaba G.B. Sowerby II, 1846
• Glabella reeveana Petit, 1851
• Glabella rosadoi Kilburn, 1994
• Glabella rotunda Boyer, 2014
• Glabella tyermani (Marrat, 1876)
• Glabella xicoi (Boyer, Ryall & Wakefield, 1999)
• Glabella youngi Kilburn, 1977

Species brought into synonymy:

• Glabella arenaria Mörch, 1852: synonym of Glabella denticulata (Link, 1807)
• Glabella ferreirai Alves, 1996 synonym of Glabella mozambicana Boyer, 2014
• Glabella henrikasi (Bozzetti, 1995): synonym of Marginella henrikasi Bozzetti, 1995
• Glabella lucani (Jousseaume, 1884): synonym of Marginella lucani Jousseaume, 1884

References

• Cossignani T. (2006). Marginellidae & Cystiscidae of the World. L'Informatore Piceno. 408pp

External links

• Swainson W. (1840) A treatise on malacology or shells and shell-fish. London, Longman. viii + 419 pp.
• Hinds R. B. (1844). Descriptions of Marginellae collected during the voyage of H. M. S. Sulphur, and from the collection of H. Cuming Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 12: 72-77.
• Gray, J. E. (1847). A list of the genera of recent Mollusca, their synonyma and types. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 15: 129-219.
• Coovert G.A. & Coovert H.K. (1995) Revision of the supraspecific classification of marginelliform gastropods. The Nautilus 109(2-3): 43-110

Notes and References

1. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=465262 WoRMS : Glabella; accessed : 7 September 2010