Glabella is a genus of small tropical and warm-water sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Marginellidae, the margin snails.
Taxonomy It is debatable whether it is justified to distinguish this genus from Marginella s. str. without a comprehensive phylogenetic hypothesis of the family. However the two genera cannot be objective synonyms because Marginella glabella (Linnaeus, 1758) is not one of the species originally included in Glabella.
Species According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), the following species with valid names are included within the genus Glabella :WoRMS : Glabella; accessed : 7 September 2010 Glabella adansoni Kiener, 1834 Glabella ansonae Clover, 1976 Glabella bellii G.B. Sowerby II, 1846 Glabella bifasciata (Lamarck, 1822) Glabella davisiana Marrat, 1877 Glabella denticulata Link, 1807 Glabella faba (Linnaeus, 1758) Glabella fumigata (Gofas & Fernandes, 1994) Glabella harpaeformis G.B. Sowerby II, 1846 Glabella macua Boyer, Rosado & Gori, 2018 Glabella mirabilis H. Adams, 1869 Glabella mozambicana Boyer, 2014 Glabella nodata (Hinds, 1844) Glabella obtusa G.B. Sowerby II, 1846 Glabella omanensis Boyer, 2014 Glabella pseudofaba G.B. Sowerby II, 1846 Glabella reeveana Petit, 1851 Glabella rosadoi Kilburn, 1994 Glabella rotunda Boyer, 2014 Glabella tyermani (Marrat, 1876) Glabella xicoi (Boyer, Ryall & Wakefield, 1999) Glabella youngi Kilburn, 1977 Species brought into synonymy Glabella arenaria Mörch, 1852: synonym of Glabella denticulata (Link, 1807) Glabella ferreirai Alves, 1996 synonym of Glabella mozambicana Boyer, 2014 Glabella henrikasi (Bozzetti, 1995): synonym of Marginella henrikasi Bozzetti, 1995 Glabella lucani (Jousseaume, 1884): synonym of Marginella lucani Jousseaume, 1884
References
Cossignani T. (2006). Marginellidae & Cystiscidae of the World. L'Informatore Piceno. 408pp
External links
Swainson W. (1840) A treatise on malacology or shells and shell-fish. London, Longman. viii + 419 pp. Hinds R. B. (1844). Descriptions of Marginellae collected during the voyage of H. M. S. Sulphur, and from the collection of H. Cuming Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 12: 72-77. Gray, J. E. (1847). A list of the genera of recent Mollusca, their synonyma and types. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 15: 129-219. Coovert G.A. & Coovert H.K. (1995) Revision of the supraspecific classification of marginelliform gastropods. The Nautilus 109(2-3): 43-110