Glabella is a genus of small tropical and warm-water sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Marginellidae, the margin snails.[1]
Taxonomy
It is debatable whether it is justified to distinguish this genus from Marginella s. str. without a comprehensive phylogenetic hypothesis of the family. However the two genera cannot be objective synonyms because Marginella glabella (Linnaeus, 1758) is not one of the species originally included in Glabella.
Species
According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), the following species with valid names are included within the genus Glabella :[2]
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Glabella adansoni Kiener, 1834
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Glabella ansonae Clover, 1976
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Glabella bellii G.B. Sowerby II, 1846
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Glabella bifasciata (Lamarck, 1822)
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Glabella davisiana Marrat, 1877
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Glabella denticulata Link, 1807
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Glabella faba (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Glabella fumigata (Gofas & Fernandes, 1994)
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Glabella harpaeformis G.B. Sowerby II, 1846
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Glabella macua Boyer, Rosado & Gori, 2018
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Glabella mirabilis H. Adams, 1869
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Glabella mozambicana Boyer, 2014
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Glabella nodata (Hinds, 1844)
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Glabella obtusa G.B. Sowerby II, 1846
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Glabella omanensis Boyer, 2014
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Glabella pseudofaba G.B. Sowerby II, 1846
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Glabella reeveana Petit, 1851
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Glabella rosadoi Kilburn, 1994
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Glabella rotunda Boyer, 2014
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Glabella tyermani (Marrat, 1876)
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Glabella xicoi (Boyer, Ryall & Wakefield, 1999)
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Glabella youngi Kilburn, 1977
- Species brought into synonymy
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Glabella arenaria Mörch, 1852: synonym of Glabella denticulata (Link, 1807)
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Glabella ferreirai Alves, 1996 synonym of Glabella mozambicana Boyer, 2014
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Glabella henrikasi (Bozzetti, 1995): synonym of Marginella henrikasi Bozzetti, 1995
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Glabella lucani (Jousseaume, 1884): synonym of Marginella lucani Jousseaume, 1884
References
- Cossignani T. (2006). Marginellidae & Cystiscidae of the World. L'Informatore Piceno. 408pp
