Seguenzia

Seguenzia
Drawing with apertural view of a shell of Seguenzia elegans
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Seguenzioidea
Family: Seguenziidae
Subfamily: Seguenziinae
Genus: Seguenzia
Jeffreys, 1876 [1]
Type species
Seguenzia formosa
Jeffreys, 1876

Seguenzia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Seguenziidae.[2]

This genus was named after Giuseppe Seguenza (1833–1889), the palaeontologist at Messina, Italy.

  1. ^ Jeffreys, J. G. 1876. Preliminary report of the biological results of a cruise in H. M. S. 'Valorous' to Davis Strait in 1875. Proc. R. Soc. London 25: 177-230
  2. ^ a b Seguenzia Jeffreys, 1876. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 26 March 2013.