Aphera

Short description: Genus of gastropods

Aphera

Apertural view of shell of Aphera tessellata
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Mollusca
Class:  | Gastropoda
Subclass:  | Caenogastropoda
Order:  | Neogastropoda
Family:  | Cancellariidae
Genus:  | Aphera
H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854

Aphera is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.[1]

## Species

Species within the genus Aphera include:

* † Aphera islacolonis (Maury, 1917)[2]
* Aphera lindae Petuch, 1987[3]
* † Aphera scopalveus Finlay, 1926[4]
* Aphera tessellata (G. B. Sowerby I, 1832)[5]

## References

1. ↑ Aphera H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 March 2011.
2. ↑ Aphera islacolonis (Maury, 1917). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 April 2010.
3. ↑ Aphera lindae Petuch, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 April 2010.
4. ↑ Marshall, B. (2015). Aphera scopalveus Finlay, 1926 †. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=831318 on 2018-01-08
5. ↑ Aphera tessellata (G.B. Sowerby I, 1832a). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 April 2010.

* Hemmen J. (2007). Recent Cancellariidae. Wiesbaden, 428pp

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