Moerchia

Moerchia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.[1]

Moerchia
Shell of Moerchia deformata (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subcohort: Panpulmonata
Superfamily: Pyramidelloidea
Family: Pyramidellidae
Genus: Moerchia
A. Adams, 1860
Type species
Moerchia obvoluta A. Adams, 1860
Synonyms[1]
  • Liotropica Laseron, 1958
  • Moerchiella Thiele, 1924 (Unnecessary substitute name for Moerchia A. Adams, April 1860, by Thiele believed to be preoccupied by "Albers, 1850" [in fact, Albers December 1860]; see also Moerchinella)
  • Moerchinella Thiele, 1931 (Nom. nov. pro Moerchiella Thiele, 1924, non G. Nevill, 1885, itself an unnecessary substitute name for Moerchia A. Adams, 1860)

Species
  • Moerchia deformata Rubio & Rolán, 2014
  • Moerchia intermedia (Thiele, 1925)
  • Moerchia introspecta Hedley, 1907
  • Moerchia morleti P. Fischer, 1877
  • Moerchia obvoluta A. Adams, 1860
  • Moerchia perforata Rubio & Rolán, 2014
Taxon inquirendum
  • Moerchia biplicata P. Fischer, 1877

References
  1. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Moerchia A. Adams, 1860. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=559939 on 2021-08-11
  • Thiele, J. (1924). Revision des Systems der Trochacea. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin. 11(1): 47-74
  • Thiele, J. (1929-1935). Handbuch der systematischen Weichtierkunde. Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1154 pp.
  • Rubio F. & Rolán E. (2014). Two new species of Moerchia A. Adams, 1860 (Gastropoda, Pyramidellidae) from southwest tropical Pacific. Novapex. 15(3-4): 63-71



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