Lodderia

Lodderia is a genus of minute sea snails or micromolluscs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Skeneidae.^[1] This genus belonged previously to the family Liotiidae.

Lodderia Temporal range: Miocene to Recent
Drawing with two views of Lodderia novemcarinata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Skeneidae
Genus:	Lodderia Tate, 1899
Type species
Lodderia lodderae Petterd, W.F., 1884
Species
See text
Synonyms
Circulus (Lodderia) Tate, 1899

Description

The shell has a depressed turbinate shape and a deep umbilicus. The sculpture consists of a number of spiral keels. The circular aperture is oblique and shows a prominent varix. The peristome is continuous. The white operculum is multispiral with a central nucleus.^[2]

Species

Species within the genus Lodderia include:

• Lodderia coatsiana (Melvill & Standen, 1912)
• Lodderia eumorpha (Suter, 1908)
  • Lodderia eumorpha cookiana (Dell, 1952)
  • Lodderia eumorpha eumorpha (Suter, 1908)
• Lodderia iota (Powell, 1940)
• Lodderia lodderae Petterd, 1884
• † Lodderia mandulana C. Beets, 1984
• Lodderia novemcarinata (Melvill, 1906)
• Lodderia waitemata (Powell, 1940)

Species brought into synonymy

• Lodderia virginiae (Jousseaume, 1872): synonym of Cyclostrema virginiae Jousseaume, 1872