Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Vetigastropoda > Order Lepetellida > Superfamily Scissurelloidea > Family Scissurellidae

Scissurella A. d'Orbigny, 1824

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Schismope*	Jeffreys, 1856	synonym
*Woodwardia*	Crosse & P. Fischer, 1861	synonym

Children

Scissurella azorensis Nolt, 2008
Scissurella costata A. d'Orbigny, 1824
Scissurella nauarchorum Antit, Gofas & Taviani, 2024

Literature

original description	Orbigny, A. D. d'. (1824). Monographie d'un nouveau genre de mollusque gastéropode de la famille des trochoides. Mémoires de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. ser. 2, 1: 340-345.
basis of record	Korobkov I.A. (1955). Spravochnik i metodicheskoe rukovodstvo po tretichnym molliuskam. Briukhonogie. [= A handbook and methodical guide to Tertiary molluscs. Gastropoda]. Leningrad: Gostoptekhizdat. 795 pp.
additional source	Marshall, B. A. (2002). Some recent scissurellids from the New Zealand region and remarks on some scissurellid genus group names (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda). Molluscan Research. 22(2): 165-181.
additional source	Munier-Chalmas, E. (1862). Description d'une nouvelle Scissurelle, suivie d'une liste monographique des espèces de ce genre. Journal de Conchyliologie. 10(4): 391-397, pl. 16 figs 1-4.
redescription	Geiger, D.L. (2012). Monograph of the little slit shells. Volume 1. Introduction, Scissurellidae. pp. 1-728. Volume 2. Anatomidae, Larocheidae, Depressizonidae, Sutilizonidae, Temnocinclidae. pp. 729-1291. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Monographs. Number 7. [30 October 2012].
taxonomy source	Geiger, D.L. (2012). Monograph of the little slit shells. Volume 1. Introduction, Scissurellidae. pp. 1-728. Volume 2. Anatomidae, Larocheidae, Depressizonidae, Sutilizonidae, Temnocinclidae. pp. 729-1291. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Monographs. Number 7. [30 October 2012].

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Scissurella A. d'Orbigny, 1824. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138465