Uvanilla

Short description: Genus of gastropods

Uvanilla

View of a shell of Uvanilla babelis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Mollusca
Class:  | Gastropoda
Subclass:  | Vetigastropoda
Order:  | Trochida
Superfamily:  | Trochoidea
Family:  | Turbinidae
Genus:  | Uvanilla
Gray, 1850
Type species
Uvanilla olivacea

(W. Wood, 1828)

Synonyms

Astraea (Uvanilla)

Uvanilla is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.[1][2]

## Species

Species within the genus Uvanilla include:

* Uvanilla babelis (P. Fischer, 1874) [3]
* Uvanilla buschii (Philippi, 1844)[4]
* Uvanilla olivacea (W. Wood, 1828)[5]
* Uvanilla unguis (W. Wood, 1828)[6]

Species brought into synonymy

* Uvanilla heimburgi Dunker, 1882: synonym of Astralium heimburgi (Dunker, 1882)[7]

## References

1. ↑ Uvanilla Gray, 1850. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 26 August 2011.
2. ↑ Alf A. & Kreipl K. (2011) The family Turbinidae. Subfamilies Turbininae Rafinesque, 1815 and Prisogasterinae Hickman & McLean, 1990. In: G.T. Poppe & K. Groh (eds), A Conchological Iconography. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. pp. 1-82, pls 104-245.
3. ↑ Uvanilla babelis (P.Fischer, 1874). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 October 2011.
4. ↑ Uvanilla buschii (Philippi, 1844). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 October 2011.
5. ↑ Uvanilla olivacea (W. Wood, 1828). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 October 2011.
6. ↑ Uvanilla unguis (W. Wood, 1828). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 October 2011.
7. ↑ Astralium heimburgi (Dunker, 1882). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 October 2011.

* Keen M. (1971) Sea shells of tropical West America. Marine mollusks from Baja California to Perú, ed. 2. Stanford University Press. 1064 pp.
* Alf A. & Kreipl K. (2011) The family Turbinidae. Subfamilies Turbininae Rafinesque, 1815 and Prisogasterinae Hickman & McLean, 1990. In: G.T. Poppe & K. Groh (eds), A Conchological Iconography. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. pp. 1–82, pls 104-245.

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