Marinula facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Marinula
Marinula xanthostoma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata
Superfamily:	Ellobioidea
Family:	Ellobiidae
Subfamily:	Carychiinae
Genus:	Marinula King & Broderip, 1832
Synonyms
Cremnobates Swainson, 1855 Maripythia Iredale, 1936 (unavailable name: no description)

Marinula is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Ellobiidae.

This genus is found in New Zealand.

Species

Species within the genus Marinula include:

• Marinula acuta (d'Orbigny, 1835)
• Marinula concinna (C. B. Adams, 1852)
• Marinula filholi Hutton, 1878
• Marinula juanensis
• Marinula maindroni Vélain, 1877
• Marinula parva (Swainson, 1855)
• Marinula pepita King, 1832
• Marinula rhoadsi Pilsbry, 1910
• Marinula striata Odhner, 1924
• Marinula tristanensis Connolly, 1915
• Marinula velaini Connolly, 1915
• Marinula xanthostoma

Species brought into synonymy

• Subgenus Marinula (Monica) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855: synonym of Ovatella Bivona-Bernardi, 1832
• Marinula affinis (Férussac, 1821): synonym of Pedipes affinis Férussac, 1821
• Marinula chathamensis Finlay, 1928: synonym of Marinula filholi Hutton, 1878