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Chevallieria

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Chevallieria
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Iravadiidae
Genus: Chevallieria
Cossmann, 1888
Type species
Chevallieria labrosa Cossmann, 1888
Synonyms[1]

Nanadoma Laseron, 1956 ·

Chevallieria is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Anabathridae.[1]

Description

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(Original description in French) The shell is imperforate and subcylindrical, featuring a spire truncated at the apex and spirally striated whorls. The aperture is oval, subtrigonal, and vertical, broadly emarginate anteriorly. The peristome is entire and callous, forming an angle at the junction of the columella. [2]

Species

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References

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  1. ^ a b Chevallieria Cossmann, 1888. 21 May 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
  2. ^ Cossmann, M. (1888). "Catalogue illustré des coquilles fossiles de l'Éocène des environs de Paris". Annales de la Société Royale Malacologique de Belgique. 23: 240. Retrieved 21 May 2025. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  • Laseron, C.F. (1956). "The families Rissoinidae and Rissoidae (Mollusca) from the Solanderian and Dampierian zoogeographical provinces". Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 7 (3): 384–484.
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