Microgaza Explained

Microgaza is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Solariellidae.

Description

The flattened shell is rotelliform, resembling a species from the genus Gaza without the reflected lip or umbilical callus. The shell is brilliantly nacreous when fresh. It has a distinctly scalariform umbilicus.^[1]

Species

Species within the genus Microgaza include:

• † Microgaza bailyi (Gabb, 1861)^[2]
• Microgaza rotella Dall, 1881
• Microgaza vetula Woodring, 1928

Species brought into synonymy:

• Microgaza alabida (Marshall, 1979) accepted as Archiminolia alabida (B. A. Marshall, 1979)
• Microgaza corona Lee Y.C. & Wu W.L., 2001: synonym of Elaphriella corona (Y.-C. Lee & W.-L. Wu, 2001) (original combination)
• Microgaza dawsoni (Marshall, 1979) accepted as Archiminolia dawsoni (B. A. Marshall, 1979)
• Microgaza fulgens Dall, 1907: synonym of Ilanga fulgens (Dall, 1907)
• Microgaza gotoi Poppe, Tagaro & Dekker, 2006: synonym of Ilanga gotoi (Poppe, Tagaro & Dekker, 2006)
• Microgaza hurleyi (Marshall, 1979) accepted as Archiminolia hurleyi (B. A. Marshall, 1979)
• Microgaza inornata Quinn, 1979: synonym of Microgaza rotella inornata Quinn, 1979
• Microgaza iridescens (Habe, 1968): synonym of Archiminolia iridescens (Habe, 1961)
• Microgaza katoi (Kuroda & Habe, 1961): synonym of Archiminolia katoi (Kuroda & Habe, 1961)
• Microgaza konos Vilvens, 2009: synonym of Ilanga konos (Vilvens, 2009) (original combination)
• Microgaza navakaensis Ladd, 1982: synonym of Ilanga navakaensis (Ladd, 1982) (original combination)
• Microgaza norfolkensis Marshall, 1999; synonym of Ilanga norfolkensis (B. A. Marshall, 1999)
• Microgaza opalina (Shikama & Hayashi, 1977): synonym of Elaphriella opalina (Shikama & Hayashi, 1977) (original combination)
• Microgaza ziczac Kuroda & Habe, 1971: synonym of Archiminolia ziczac (Kuroda & Habe, 1971)

References

• Williams S.T., Karube S. & Ozawa T. (2008) Molecular systematics of Vetigastropoda: Trochidae, Turbinidae and Trochoidea redefined. Zoologica Scripta 37: 483–506

External links

• W.H. Dall (1881), Preliminary Report of dredgings by USS Blake; Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College v. 9 pp. 1–144

Notes and References

1. https://archive.org/details/manualofconcholo111tryo Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
2. Kiel S. (2003) New taxonomic data for the gastropod fauna of the Umzamba Formation (Santonian–Campanian, South Africa); Cretaceous Research 24 (2003) 449–475