Charisma is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Trochidae, the top snails.Bouchet, P. (2012). Charisma Hedley, 1915. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=512296 on 2012-11-23
Description A genus related to Liotia, but without a varix to the outer lip. The species are few-whorled and spirally sculptured. Their umbilicus has an internal funicle. The operculum is corneous, concave, multispiral, with a spiral frilled lamella. Hedley C. (1915), Studies on Australian Mollusca. Part XII; Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales v. 39
Species Charisma arenacea (Pritchard, G.B. & J.H. Gatliff, 1902) Charisma candida (A. Adams, 1861) Charisma carinata (Verco, J.C., 1907) Charisma compacta Hedley, C., 1915 Charisma josephi (Tenison-Woods, J.E., 1877) Charisma latebrosa (Hedley, C., 1907) Charisma radians (Laseron, 1954) Charisma simplex (Laseron, 1954)
References
Cotton, B.C., 1959. South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Govt. Printer, Adelaide Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F., 1962 [31/Dec/1962]. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Mem. Aust. Mus., 11:0-0 Hickman, C.S. & McLean, J.H., 1990 26 November.. Systematic revision and suprageneric classification of trochacean gastropods . Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Science Series, 35:1-169 Wilson, B., 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Odyssey Publishing, Kallaroo, WA
External links ITIS World Register of Marine Species