Frovina

Frovina is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Naticidae, the moon snails.[1]

Frovina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:
Littorinoidea
Family:
Zerotulidae
Genus:
Frovina

Thiele, 1912
Synonyms[1]
  • Frigidilacuna Tomlin, 1930
  • Prolacuna Thiele, 1913
  • Sublacuna Thiele, 1912 (Invalid: junior homonym of Sublacuna Pilsbry, 1895; Prolacuna and Frigidilacuna are replacement names)

Species
  • Frovina angularis Warén & Hain, 1996
  • Frovina indecora (Thiele, 1912)
  • Frovina soror Thiele, 1912

References
  1. Bouchet, P. (2010). Frovina Thiele, 1912. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=197009 on 2011-04-30
  • Warén A. & Hain S. (1996) Description of Zerotulidae fam. nov. (Littorinoidea), with comments on an Antarctic littorinid gastropod. The Veliger 39(4):277-334


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