{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = Miocene to Recent | image = Lodderia novemcarinata 001.jpg | image_caption = Drawing with two views of ''Lodderia novemcarinata'' | taxon = Lodderia | authority = Tate, 1899 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text | type_species = ''Lodderia lodderae'' | type_species_authority = Petterd, W.F., 1884 | synonyms_ref = | synonyms = ''Circulus (Lodderia)'' <small>Tate, 1899</small> }}
'''''Lodderia''''' is a genus of minute sea snails or micromolluscs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Skeneidae.<ref name="WoRMS">Rosenberg, G. (2012). Lodderia. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=532002 on 2012-06-21</ref> This genus belonged previously to the family Liotiidae.
==Description== The shell has a depressed turbinate shape and a deep umbilicus. The sculpture consists of a number of spiral keels. The circular aperture is oblique and shows a prominent varix. The peristome is continuous. The white operculum is multispiral with a central nucleus.<ref>Tate, R. 1899. A revision of the Australian Cyclostrematidae and Liotiidae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 23(2): 213-229</ref>
==Species== Species within the genus ''Lodderia'' include: * ''Lodderia coatsiana'' <small>(Melvill & Standen, 1912)</small> * ''Lodderia eumorpha'' <small>(Suter, 1908)</small> ** ''Lodderia eumorpha cookiana'' <small>(Dell, 1952)</small> ** ''Lodderia eumorpha eumorpha'' <small>(Suter, 1908)</small> * ''Lodderia iota'' <small>(Powell, 1940)</small> * ''Lodderia lodderae'' <small>Petterd, 1884</small> * † ''Lodderia mandulana'' <small>C. Beets, 1984</small> * ''Lodderia novemcarinata'' <small>(Melvill, 1906)</small> * ''Lodderia waitemata'' <small>(Powell, 1940)</small> ;Species brought into synonymy: * ''Lodderia virginiae'' <small>(Jousseaume, 1872)</small>: synonym of ''Cyclostrema virginiae'' <small>Jousseaume, 1872</small>
==References== {{Reflist}} * Powell A. W. B., ''New Zealand Mollusca'', William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 {{ISBN|0-00-216906-1}} * [http://data.gbif.org/species/browse/taxon/14732913 GBIF]
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Category:Lodderia Category:Skeneidae Category:Extant Miocene first appearances Category:Gastropod genera