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Retusa

Retusa
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live Retusa sp.
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A group of shells of Retusa truncatula
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Euopisthobranchia
clade Cephalaspidea

Superfamily: Philinoidea
Family: Retusidae
Genus: Retusa
T. Brown, 1827
Type species
Bulla obtusa Montagu, 1803
Synonyms
  • Coleophysis P. Fischer, 1883
  • Cylichnina Monterosato, 1884
  • Mamilloretusa F. Nordsieck, 1972
  • Retua [sic] (misspelling)
  • Retusa (Coleophysis) P. Pischer, 1883
  • Retusa (Cylichnina) Monterosato, 1884
  • Retusa (Retusa) Brown, 1827
  • Tornatina (Coleophysis) P. Fischer, 1883
  • Utriculus T. Brown, 1844 (Invalid: junior homonym of Utriculus Schumacher, 1817)

clade Euthyneura
clade Euopisthobranchia
clade Cephalaspidea

Retusa is a genus of very small head-shield sea snails or barrel-bubble snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Retusidae.

Species within the genus Retusa include:



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