Menestho Explained

Menestho is a genus of very small sea snails, pyramidellid gastropod mollusks, or micromollusks.^[1]

Shell description

The original description by Möller (1842) is brief and in Latin: "Animal pede elongato, angusto; ore simplici, membrana linguali destituto; tentaculis brevioribus, crassiusculis, oculos perparvos ad basin internum ferentibus. Operculo pauco-spirato. Testa conico-turrita."

Life habits

Little is known about the biology of the members of this genus. As is true of most members of the Pyramidellidae sensu lato, they are most likely to be ectoparasites.

Species

Species within the genus Menestho include:

• Menestho acuminata Preston, 1908
• Menestho akkeshiensis Habe, 1958
• Menestho albula (Fabricius, 1780) (Type species) (as Turbo albulus)
• Menestho beermanae Jong & Coomans, 1988
• Menestho cingulitissima Nomura, 1937
• Menestho exarata A. Adams, 1861
• Menestho felix (Dall & Bartsch, 1906) ^[2]
• Menestho hypocurta (Dall & Bartsch, 1909)
• Menestho kesennumensis Nomura, 1938
• Menestho kwantoensis Nomura, 1938
• Menestho sexsulcata Nomura, 1936
• Menestho shataii Nomura, 1936
• Menestho suavis Nomura, 1936
• Menestho truncatula (Odhner, 1915)

Species brought into synonymy:

• Menestho amilda Dall & Bartsch, 1909: synonym of Odostomia amilda Dall & Bartsch, 1909
• Menestho beauforti Jacot, A.P., 1921: synonym of Boonea impressa (Say, T., 1822)
• Menestho chilensis Dall & Bartsch, 1909: synonym of Odostomia chilensis Dall & Bartsch, 1909
• Menestho cingulittissima [sic] : synonym of Menestho cingulitissima Nomura, 1937
• Menestho diaphana (Jeffreys, 1848): synonym of Ondina diaphana (Jeffreys, 1848)
• Menestho divisa (J. Adams, 1797): synonym of Ondina divisa (Adams J., 1797)
• Menestho dollfusi Locard, 1886: synonym of Euparthenia humboldti (Risso, 1826)
• Menestho exarata A. Adams, 1861: synonym of Menestho exaratissima (Dall & Bartsch, 1906)
• Menestho grijalvae (Baker, Hanna & Strong, 1928): synonym of Odostomia grijalvae Baker, Hanna & Strong, 1928
• Menestho humboldti (Risso, 1826): synonym of Euparthenia humboldti (Risso, 1826)
• Menestho morseana Bartsch, 1909: synonym of Menestho albula (Fabricius, 1780)
• Menestho tenuicula F. Nordsieck, 1972: synonym of Odostomia erjaveciana Brusina, 1869

References

• Book: Möller , H.P.C. . Index Molluscorum Groenlandiae . Hafniae . 1842 . 24 pp .
• Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
• Spencer, H.; Marshall. B. (2009). All Mollusca except Opisthobranchia. In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp
• Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). . XII, 195 pp

External links

• Menestho albula
• Menestho truncatula
• Miocene Gastropods and Biostratigraphy of the Kern River Area, California; United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 642

Notes and References

1. Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2011). Menestho Möller, 1842. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138409 on 2011-11-07
2. Dall & Bartsch, Notes on Japanese, Indo-Pacific and American Pyramidellidae; Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum, vol XXX n° 1452; 1906