{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}} {{For|steamships named Kleinella|SS Kleinella}} {{Automatic_taxobox | image =Kleinella_spec._01.jpg | image_caption =Kleinella spec | taxon = Kleinella | image_alt = Kleinella spec | authority = A. Adams, 1860<ref name="Adams 1860">{{Cite journal | author = Adams A. | year = 1860 | title = On some new genera and species of Mollusca from Japan. | journal = Annals and Magazine of Natural History | volume = 3 | issue = 5 | pages = 299–307 | issn = | doi = }} page 302.</ref> | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text. | synonyms_ref = | synonyms = ''Monotigma'' Gray, 1840 | type_species = ''Kleinella cancellaris'' A. Adams, 1860 }}
'''''Kleinella''''' is a small genus of sea snails, pyramidellid gastropod mollusk or micromollusks. This genus is currently placed in the subfamily Turbonillinae.<ref name="WoRMS 2009">WoRMS (2009). ''Kleinella'' Adams, 1880. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2009) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=224515 on 12 February 2012</ref>
==Shell description== The original description (Adams, 1860)<ref name="Adams 1860"/> reads: Testa ovata, tenuis, umbilicata, superficie cancellata; spira producta, apice obtuso. Apertura elongata, antice producta et integra; labio tenui, simplici; labro postice angulato, in medio recto, margine acuto. This genus nearly resembles ''Actaeon'', but without any fold on the columella; the umbilicus, moreover, is wide and deep, and the surface of the shell is cancellated. The other lip forms an angle posteriorly with the last whorl, and is straight in the middle."<ref name="Adams 1860"/>
The description of the type reads: "K. testa oblonga, late et profunde umbilicata; spira elatiuscula, apice obtuso; pallide fusca; anfractibus 3 1/2 convexiusculis (ultimo ventricoso), regulariter cancellatis; apertura ovali; labio tenui, simplici; labro in medio recto, postice angulato. Long. 1/8 poll. Hab. Straits of Korea; dredged from 63 fathoms.<ref name="Adams 1860"/>
==Life habits== Little is known about the biology of the members of this genus. As is true of most members of the Pyramidellidae ''sensu lato'', they are most likely ectoparasites.
==Species== Species within the genus ''Kleinella'' include: * ''Kleinella amoena''{{Citation needed|date=September 2010}} * ''Kleinella awaziensis'' Nomura, 1939 * ''Kleinella cancellaris'' A. Adams, 1860 - type species * ''Kleinella cedrosa'' (Dall, 1884)<ref>WoRMS (2010). ''Kleinella cedrosa'' (Dall, 1884). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=420452 on 2010-09-16</ref> * ''Kleinella ceylanica'' (Preston, 1905) * ''Kleinella fulva'' (A. Adams, 1851){{Citation needed|date=September 2010}} * ''Kleinella sulcata'' (A. Adams, 1862){{Citation needed|date=September 2010}}
subgenus ''Euparthenia'' * ''Kleinella bulinea'' (Lowe, 1841)<ref>Gofas, S. (2009). ''Kleinella'' (''Euparthenia'') ''bulinea'' (Lowe, 1841). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140960 on 2010-09-1</ref> * ''Kleinella humboldti'' (Risso, 1826)<ref>Gofas, S. (2009). ''Kleinella'' (''Euparthenia'') ''humboldti'' (Risso, 1826). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140961 on 2010-09-16</ref>
==See also== * ''Euparthenia'' * ''Monotygma''
==References== This article incorporates public domain text from the reference <ref name="Adams 1860"/> {{Reflist}} * Bernard, P.A. (Ed.) (1984). ''Coquillages du Gabon [Shells of Gabon]''. Pierre A. Bernard: Libreville, Gabon. 140, 75 plates pp. * Gofas, S.; Afonso, J.P.; Brandào, M. (Ed.). (S.a.). ''Conchas e Moluscos de Angola = Coquillages et Mollusques d'Angola. [Shells and molluscs of Angola].'' Universidade Agostinho / Elf Aquitaine Angola: Angola. 140 pp. * Vaught, K.C. (1989). ''A classification of the living Mollusca''. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). {{ISBN|0-915826-22-4}}. XII, 195 pp.
==External links== * [http://gastropods.com/Shell_Images/ThumbNails/G-L/TN_Kleinella_sulcata.jpg ''Kleinella sulcata'' image]
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Category:Pyramidellidae Category:Taxa named by Arthur Adams (zoologist)