{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Benthonella tenella (MNHN-IM-2012-7068).jpeg |image_caption = Shell of ''Benthonella tenella'' (specimen at MNHN, Paris) |display_parents = 3 |taxon = Benthonella |authority =Dall, 1889 |synonyms_ref = |synonyms = * ''Assiminopsis'' <small>Locard, 1897</small> * ''Hela'' <small>Jeffreys, 1870</small> (preoccupied by ''Hela'' <small>Muenster, 1840</small>) |type_species = ''Benthonella tenella'' |type_species_authority = (Jeffreys, 1869) }}

'''''Benthonella''''' is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Rissoidae.<ref name="WoRMS">{{WRMS species|138441|''Benthonella'' Dall, 1889|||WoRMS (2010). Benthonella Dall, 1889. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at <nowiki>http://www.marinespecies.eu/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138441</nowiki> on 23 December 2012}}</ref>

==Species== Species within the genus ''Benthonella'' include: * † ''Benthonella alvaniformis'' <small>Lozouet, 2014</small> * † ''Benthonella bearnensis'' <small>Lozouet, 2014</small> * † ''Benthonella brontodes'' <small>Lozouet, 1990</small> * ''Benthonella decorata'' <small>(Thiele, 1925)</small> * † ''Benthonella loriei'' <small>Weisbord, 1962</small> * † ''Benthonella lutetiana'' <small>Lozouet, 2014</small> * ''Benthonella margaritifera'' <small>(Watson, 1886)</small> * † ''Benthonella priabonica'' <small>Lozouet, 2014</small> * ''Benthonella sculpta'' <small>(Thiele, 1925)</small> * ''Benthonella tenella'' <small>(Jeffreys, 1869)</small><ref>{{WRMS species|141261|''Benthonella tenella'' (Jeffreys, 1869)||9 August 2010}}</ref> ; Species brought into synonymy: * ''Benthonella fischeri'' <small>Dall, 1889</small>: synonym of ''Benthonella tenella'' <small>(Jeffreys, 1869)</small> * ''Benthonella gaza'' <small>Dall, 1889</small>: synonym of ''Benthonella tenella'' <small>(Jeffreys, 1869)</small> * ''Benthonella jeffreysi'' <small>(Dautzenberg, 1889)</small>: synonym of ''Benthonella tenella'' <small>(Jeffreys, 1869)</small> * ''Benthonella kullenbergi'' <small>Odhner, 1960</small>: synonym of ''Benthonella tenella'' <small>(Jeffreys, 1869)</small> * ''Benthonella nisonis'' <small>Dall, 1889</small>: synonym of ''Thaleia nisonis'' <small>(Dall, 1889)</small>

==References== {{Reflist}} * Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). ''European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification''. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp.&nbsp;180–213 * Spencer, H.; Marshall. B. (2009). ''All Mollusca except Opisthobranchia''. In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp

==External links== {{Commons category}} * [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/25505 Dall W.H. 1889. Reports on the results of dredging, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-78) and in the Caribbean Sea (1879-80), by the U.S. Coast Survey Steamer "Blake", Lieut.-Commander C.D. Sigsbee, U.S.N., and Commander J.R. Bartlett, U.S.N., commanding. XXIX. Report on the Mollusca. Part 2, Gastropoda and Scaphopoda. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College, 18: 1-492, pls. 10-40] * [https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29404572 Jeffreys, J. G. (1870). Mediterranean Mollusca. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (4)6: 65-86] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20090916080204/http://www.australianmuseum.net/ ''au/journal/Ponder-1985-Rec-Aust-Mus-Suppl-4-1221/ Ponder W. F. (1985).'' A review of the Genera of the Rissoidae (Mollusca: Mesogastropoda: Rissoacea). Records of the Australian Museum supplement 4: 1-221]

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Category:Rissoidae Category:Gastropod genera Category:Taxa named by William Healey Dall

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