Microgaza

Microgaza is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Solariellidae.^[1]

Microgaza
Drawing of a shell of Microgaza rotella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Solariellidae
Genus:	Microgaza Dall, 1881
Type species
Solariella (Microgaza) rotella Dall,1881
Species
See text
Synonyms
Callogaza (Microgaza) Dall, 1881 (original rank) Microgaza (Microgaza) Dall, 1881 Solariella (Microgaza) Dall, 1881

Description

The flattened shell is rotelliform^{[check spelling]}, resembling a species from the genus Gaza without the reflected lip or umbilical callus. The shell is brilliantly nacreous when fresh. It has a distinctly scalariform umbilicus.^[2]

Species

Species within the genus Microgaza include:

• † Microgaza bailyi (Gabb, 1861)^[3]
• Microgaza rotella Dall, 1881
• Microgaza vetula Woodring, 1928

Species brought into synonymy

• Microgaza alabida (Marshall, 1979) accepted as Archiminolia alabida (B. A. Marshall, 1979)
• Microgaza corona Lee Y.C. & Wu W.L., 2001:^[4] synonym of Elaphriella corona (Y.-C. Lee & W.-L. Wu, 2001) (original combination)
• Microgaza dawsoni (Marshall, 1979) accepted as Archiminolia dawsoni (B. A. Marshall, 1979)
• Microgaza fulgens Dall, 1907:^[5] synonym of Ilanga fulgens (Dall, 1907)
• Microgaza gotoi Poppe, Tagaro & Dekker, 2006:^[6] synonym of Ilanga gotoi (Poppe, Tagaro & Dekker, 2006)
• Microgaza hurleyi (Marshall, 1979) accepted as Archiminolia hurleyi (B. A. Marshall, 1979)
• Microgaza inornata Quinn, 1979: synonym of Microgaza rotella inornata Quinn, 1979
• Microgaza iridescens (Habe, 1968):^[7] synonym of Archiminolia iridescens (Habe, 1961)
• Microgaza katoi (Kuroda & Habe, 1961): synonym of Archiminolia katoi (Kuroda & Habe, 1961)
• Microgaza konos Vilvens, 2009:^[8] synonym of Ilanga konos (Vilvens, 2009) (original combination)
• Microgaza navakaensis Ladd, 1982: synonym of Ilanga navakaensis (Ladd, 1982) (original combination)
• Microgaza norfolkensis Marshall, 1999;^[9] synonym of Ilanga norfolkensis (B. A. Marshall, 1999)
• Microgaza opalina (Shikama & Hayashi, 1977): synonym of Elaphriella opalina (Shikama & Hayashi, 1977) (original combination)
• Microgaza ziczac Kuroda & Habe, 1971: synonym of Archiminolia ziczac (Kuroda & Habe, 1971)