Moerchia

Moerchia
Shell of Moerchia deformata (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subcohort:	Panpulmonata
Superfamily:	Pyramidelloidea
Family:	Pyramidellidae
Genus:	Moerchia A. Adams, 1860
Type species
Moerchia obvoluta A. Adams, 1860
Synonyms[1]
Liotropica Laseron, 1958 Moerchiella Thiele, 1924 (Unnecessary substitute name for Moerchia A. Adams, April 1860, by Thiele believed to be preoccupied by "Albers, 1850" [in fact, Albers December 1860]; see also Moerchinella) Moerchinella Thiele, 1931 (Nom. nov. pro Moerchiella Thiele, 1924, non G. Nevill, 1885, itself an unnecessary substitute name for Moerchia A. Adams, 1860)

Moerchia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.^[1]

Species[]

• Rubio & Rolán, 2014
• (Thiele, 1925)
• Hedley, 1907
• P. Fischer, 1877
• Moerchia obvoluta A. Adams, 1860
• Rubio & Rolán, 2014

Taxon inquirendum

• Moerchia biplicata P. Fischer, 1877

References[]

• Thiele, J. (1924). Revision des Systems der Trochacea. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin. 11(1): 47-74
• Thiele, J. (1929-1935). Handbuch der systematischen Weichtierkunde. Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1154 pp.
• Rubio F. & Rolán E. (2014). Two new species of Moerchia A. Adams, 1860 (Gastropoda, Pyramidellidae) from southwest tropical Pacific. Novapex. 15(3-4): 63-71

External links[]

• Adams, A. (1860). On some new genera and species of Mollusca from Japan. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (3) 5: 299-303 [1 April 1860; 405-413]
• Laseron, C. F. (1958). Liotiidae and allied molluscs from the Dampierian Zoogeographical Province. Records of the Australian Museum. 24: 165-182

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