| Finella | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Family: | Scaliolidae |
| Genus: | Finella A. Adams, 1860[1] |
| Type species | |
| Finella pupoides A. Adams, 1860 | |
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Finella is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Scaliolidae.[2]
This genus has been assigned in the course of time to different families by different authors: Rissoidae, Cerithiidae, Dialidae, Obtortionidae, Finellidae and Diastomatidae Morphological and anatomical studies by Winston Ponder in 1994 established that the genera Finella and Scaliola didn't belong in the above-mentioned families and he brought them in a new family Scaliolidae.[3] This was supported in 1982 by Healy through the study of the ultrastructure on the spermatozoa.[4]
- ^ Adams A. (1860). Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3)6: 336.
- ^ Finella Adams, 1860. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 11 April 2012.
- ^ Ponder W. F. "The anatomy and relationships of Finella and Scaliola (Caenogastropoda, Cerithoidea, Scaliolidae)". pp. 215-241. In: Morton B. (ed.) The Malacofauna of Hong Kong and Southern China III. Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on the Malacofauna of Hong Kong and Southern China; Hong Kong, 13 April - 1 May 1992 xxii + 504 p.; Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong
- ^ Healy J. M. (1982). "Ultrastructure of paraspermatozoa, euspermatozoa and eusperm-like spermatozoa of Obtortio cf. fulva (Prosobranchia, Cerithiacea)". Helgölander wiss. Meeresunters 35: 485-500.