Lodderia
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Lodderia is a genus of minute sea snails or micromolluscs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Skeneidae. This genus belonged previously to the family Liotiidae.
Description
The shell has a depressed turbinate shape and a deep umbilicus. The sculpture consists of a number of spiral keels. The circular aperture is oblique and shows a prominent varix. The peristome is continuous. The white operculum is multispiral with a central nucleus.
Species
Species within the genus Lodderia include:
- Lodderia coatsiana (Melvill & Standen, 1912)
- Lodderia eumorpha (Suter, 1908) Lodderia eumorpha cookiana (Dell, 1952) Lodderia eumorpha eumorpha (Suter, 1908)
- Lodderia iota (Powell, 1940)
- Lodderia lodderae Petterd, 1884
- † Lodderia mandulana C. Beets, 1984
- Lodderia novemcarinata (Melvill, 1906)
- Lodderia waitemata (Powell, 1940)
Species brought into synonymy
- Lodderia virginiae (Jousseaume, 1872): synonym of Cyclostrema virginiae Jousseaume, 1872
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1