Maesiella is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudomelatomidae.
The generic name Maesiella is named in honor of American malacologist Virginia Orr Maes.Robertson R. (1987). "Virginia Orr Maes (1920-1986): Biography and Malacological Bibliography". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 139: 527-532.
Species Species within the genus Maesiella include: Maesiella dominguezi (J. & W. Gibson-Smith, 1983) Maesiella hermanita (Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932) Maesiella maesae McLean & Poorman, 1971 Maesiella punctatostriata (Carpenter, 1856) Species brought into synonymy Maesiella solitaria Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932: synonym of Maesiella punctatostriata (Carpenter, 1856)
References
External links McLean, J.H. (1971) A revised classification of the family Turridae, with the proposal of new subfamilies, genera, and subgenera from the Eastern Pacific. The Veliger, 14, 114–130
Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77(3): 273-308 Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Pseudomelatomidae