Carinaria

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Carinaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Orthogastropoda
Superorder: Caenogastropoda
Order: Sorbeoconcha
Suborder: Hypsogastropoda
Infraorder: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Carinarioidea
Family: Carinariidae
Genus: Carinaria
Lamarck, 1801
Species

See text.

Carinaria is a genus of medium-sized floating sea snails, pelagic gastropod molluscs in the family Carinariidae.

[edit] Shell description

The shells of species in this genus are quite small in relation to the size of the large elongated animal; the shell serves only as a protection to the viscera.

The shell is a thin and transparent cap, somewhat resembling the shell of a miniature argonauta, or paper nautilus.

[edit] Species

  • Carinaria cithara Benson, 1835 - harp carinaria
  • Carinaria cristata (Linnaeus, 1767)
  • Carinaria galea Benson, 1835 - helmet carinaria
  • Carinaria japonica
  • Carinaria lamarcki Peron and Lesueur, 1810

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