Lodderena Explained

Lodderena is a genus of minute sea snails or micromolluscs, marine gastropod molluscs, formerly in the family Skeneidae.^[1] Following a morphological reevaluation, it was excluded from Skeneidae and treated as incertae sedis within the superfamily Trochoidea.^{[2] [3]}

Species

Species within the genus Lodderena include:

• Lodderena arifca (Bartsch, 1915)
• Lodderena bunnelli Redfern & Rolán, 2005
• Lodderena emeryi (Ladd, 1966)
• Lodderena formosa Powell, 1930
• Lodderena janetmayae Rubio, F., E.M. Rolán & C. Redfern, 1998
• Lodderena minima (Tenison-Woods, J.E., 1878)
• Lodderena nana Powell, 1930
  • Subspecies Lodderena nana pooki Fleming, 1948
• Lodderena omanensis Moolenbeek, 1996
• Lodderena ornata (Olsson & McGinty, 1958)
• Lodderena pachynepion (Pilsbry & Olsson, 1945)
• Lodderena pulchella (Olsson & McGinty, 1958)
• Lodderena tanae Moolenbeek, 1996
• Lodderena vladimiri Chernyshev, Rolán & Rubio, 2016

Species brought into synonymy:

• Lodderena catenoides (Monterosato, 1877): synonym of Skenea catenoides (Monterosato, 1877)

References

• Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979
• GBIF
• ZipCodeZoo
• Rolán E., 2005. Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda.

Notes and References

1. 2292625. Lodderena.
2. Haszprunar . Gerhard . Brückner . Martin . Ruthensteiner . Bernhard . 2020 . Skeneimorph but not skeneid: Systematics and anatomy of Lodderena Iredale, 1924 (Vetigastropoda: Trochoidea) . Journal of Molluscan Studies . 86 . 3 . 157–172 . 10.1093/mollus/eyaa011. free .
3. Bouchet, Philippe . Philippe Bouchet . MolluscaBase . 224555 . Lodderena Iredale, 1924 . 11 September 2023.