Cecina (gastropod)

Cecina
A live individual of Cecina manchurica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Pomatiopsidae
Genus: Cecina
A. Adams, 1861[1]
Diversity[2]
8 species

Cecina is a genus of sea snails which have a gill and an operculum, gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Pomatiopsidae.[3]

They live in shallow waters in littoral and supralittoral habitats.[2]

  1. ^ Adams A. (1861). "On some new Genera and Species of Mollusca from the North of China and Japan". Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3)8: 299-309. 308.
  2. ^ a b Prozorova L. A. (2003). "Morphological Features of Supralittoral Mollusks of the Genus Cecina (Gastropoda: Pomatiopsidae) from Peter the Great Bay, Sea of Japan ". Russian Journal of Marine Biology 29(1): 49-52. doi:10.1023/A:1022827920781.
  3. ^ Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.

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