Assiminea

Assiminea
Apertural view of a shell of Assiminea grayana
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Truncatelloidea
Family: Assimineidae
Genus: Assiminea
Fleming, 1828
Type species
Assiminea grayiana
J. Fleming, 1828
Synonyms
  • Assemania Knight, 1900 (unjustified emendation)
  • Assiminea (Assiminea) J. Fleming, 1828
  • Assiminia J. Fleming, 1828 (alternative original spelling [used in the index p. 557])
  • Bythinia (Assiminea) J. Fleming, 1828
  • Syncera Gray 1821 (nomen nudum)

Assiminea is a genus of minute, salt-tolerant snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks, or micromollusks, in the family Assimineidae.

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