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Cocculinidae Dall, 1882

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  superfamily Cocculinoidea

Description

Animal with a prominent head and muzzle, the males with an intromittant organ at the base of the right tentacle ; a single lamellose asymmetrical gill between the under surface of the mantle and the upper surface of the body from a point above and behind the head, extending around toward the right, and even backward on the right side ; attached only at its base. Eyes wanting in the known species. Anus anterior, opening in a papilla above and behind the head. Mantle-margin and sides of foot plain, without epipodial papilla? or processes, but they are sometimes present behind.
Suter, H. 1913. Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca.
Author: Jan Delsing

Included taxa

Number of records: 7

genus Coccocrater Haszprunar, 1987
genus Coccopigya Marshall, 1986
genus Cocculina Dall, 1882
genus Fedikovella Moskalev, 1976
genus Macleaniella Leal & Harasewych, 1999
genus Paracocculina Haszprunar, 1987
genus Pedococculina Haszprunar, Wendler, Jöst, Ruthensteiner & Hess, 2022

Links and literature

EN Australian Faunal Directory [626506a1-3fb2-4677-b106-9745510e942e]

ABRS (2009-2019): Australian Faunal Directory [https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/home], Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra [as Cocculinidae]
Data retrieved on: 15 February 2015
EN The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera [104568]

Rees, T. (compiler): The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera [https://www.irmng.org] [as Cocculinidae Dall, 1882]
Data retrieved on: 30 November 2019

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