Paziella

Paziella is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Muricinae of the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.^[2]

Paziella
Paziella pazi shell
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Muricinae
Genus:	Paziella Jousseaume, 1880[1]
Type species
Murex pazi Crosse, 1869
Synonyms[2]
Bathymurex Clench & Pérez Farfante, 1945 Dallimurex Rehder, 1946 Murex (Bathymurex) Paziella (Paziella) Jousseaume, 1880· accepted, alternate representation Poirieria (Paziella) Jousseaume, 1880

Description

The biconic, medium-sized shell has its varices dissected into spines. The aperture is ovoid and smooth inside. The anal sinus is almost closed. The columella is smooth.

This Caribbean genus is closely related to Poirieria from the Indo-Pacific region.

Species

Species within the genus Paziella include:

• Paziella atlantis (Clench & Farfante, 1945)
• Paziella galapagana (Emerson & D'Attilio, 1970)
• † Paziella gallica Landau, Merle, Ceulemans & Van Dingenen, 2019
• † Paziella gracilenta Landau, Merle, Ceulemans & Van Dingenen, 2019
• † Paziella modesta Vicián, Kovács & Stein, 2019
• Paziella nuttingi (Dall, 1896)^[3]
• Paziella oregonia (Bullis, 1964)
• † Paziella parveenae Merle & Pacaud, 2019
• Paziella pazi (Crosse, 1869)^[4]
• Paziella petuchi (Vokes, 1992)
• Paziella tanaoa (Houart & Tröndlé, 2008)

Species brought into synonymy

• Paziella hystricina (Dall, 1889):^[5] synonym of Bouchetia hystricina (Dall, 1889)
• Paziella oliverai (Kosuge, 1984): synonym of Flexopteron oliverai (Kosuge, 1984)
• † Paziella philippinensis (Shuto, 1969): synonym of † Flexopteron philippinensis Shuto, 1969
• Paziella poppei (Houart, 1993): synonym of Flexopteron poppei (Houart, 1993)
• Paziella primanova (Houart, 1985): synonym of Flexopteron primanova (Houart, 1985)
• Paziella vaubanensis (Houart, 1986): synonym of Bouchetia vaubanensis (Houart, 1986)