Microgaza

{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Microgaza | fossil_range = | image = Microgaza rotella 002.jpg | image_caption = Drawing of a shell of ''Microgaza rotella'' | authority =Dall, 1881 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = ''See text'' | synonyms_ref= | synonyms = * ''Callogaza (Microgaza)'' Dall, 1881 (original rank) * ''Microgaza (Microgaza)'' Dall, 1881 * ''Solariella (Microgaza)'' Dall, 1881 | type_species= ''Solariella (Microgaza) rotella'' Dall,1881 }}

'''''Microgaza''''' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Solariellidae.<ref name="WoRMS">{{WRMS species|391534|''Microgaza'' ||6 December 2012}}</ref>

==Description== The flattened shell is rotelliform{{typo help inline|reason=similar to rostelliform|date=November 2019}}, resembling a species from the genus Gaza without the reflected lip or umbilical callus. The shell is brilliantly nacreous when fresh. It has a distinctly scalariform umbilicus.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/manualofconcholo111tryo Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia]</ref>

==Species== Species within the genus ''Microgaza'' include: * † ''Microgaza bailyi'' (Gabb, 1861)<ref>Kiel S. (2003) ''New taxonomic data for the gastropod fauna of the Umzamba Formation (Santonian–Campanian, South Africa)''; Cretaceous Research 24 (2003) 449–475</ref> * ''Microgaza rotella'' Dall, 1881 * ''Microgaza vetula'' Woodring, 1928 ;Species brought into synonymy: * ''Microgaza alabida'' (Marshall, 1979) accepted as ''Archiminolia alabida'' (B. A. Marshall, 1979) * ''Microgaza corona'' Lee Y.C. & Wu W.L., 2001:<ref>{{WRMS species|457758|''Microgaza corona'' Lee Y.C. & Wu W.L., 2001||22 April 2010}}</ref> synonym of ''Elaphriella corona'' (Y.-C. Lee & W.-L. Wu, 2001) (original combination) * ''Microgaza dawsoni'' (Marshall, 1979) accepted as ''Archiminolia dawsoni'' (B. A. Marshall, 1979) * ''Microgaza fulgens'' Dall, 1907:<ref>{{WRMS species|413464|''Microgaza fulgens'' Dall, 1907||22 April 2010}}</ref> synonym of ''Ilanga fulgens'' (Dall, 1907) * ''Microgaza gotoi'' Poppe, Tagaro & Dekker, 2006:<ref>{{WRMS species|396455|''Microgaza gotoi'' Poppe, Tagaro & Dekker, 2006||22 April 2010}}</ref> synonym of ''Ilanga gotoi'' (Poppe, Tagaro & Dekker, 2006) * ''Microgaza hurleyi'' (Marshall, 1979) accepted as ''Archiminolia hurleyi'' (B. A. Marshall, 1979) * ''Microgaza inornata'' Quinn, 1979: synonym of ''Microgaza rotella inornata'' Quinn, 1979 * ''Microgaza iridescens'' (Habe, 1968):<ref>{{WRMS species|413463|''Microgaza iridescens'' (Habe, 1968)||22 April 2010}}</ref> synonym of ''Archiminolia iridescens'' (Habe, 1961) * ''Microgaza katoi'' (Kuroda & Habe, 1961): synonym of ''Archiminolia katoi'' (Kuroda & Habe, 1961) * ''Microgaza konos'' Vilvens, 2009:<ref>{{WRMS species|458570|''Microgaza konos'' Vilvens, 2009||22 April 2010}}</ref> synonym of ''Ilanga konos'' (Vilvens, 2009) (original combination) * ''Microgaza navakaensis'' Ladd, 1982: synonym of Ilanga navakaensis (Ladd, 1982) (original combination) * ''Microgaza norfolkensis'' Marshall, 1999;<ref>{{WRMS species|457854|''Microgaza norfolkensis'' Marshall, 1999||22 April 2010}}</ref> synonym of ''Ilanga norfolkensis'' (B. A. Marshall, 1999) * ''Microgaza opalina'' (Shikama & Hayashi, 1977): synonym of ''Elaphriella opalina'' (Shikama & Hayashi, 1977) (original combination) * ''Microgaza ziczac'' Kuroda & Habe, 1971: synonym of ''Archiminolia ziczac'' (Kuroda & Habe, 1971)

==References== {{Reflist}} * Williams S.T., Karube S. & Ozawa T. (2008) ''Molecular systematics of Vetigastropoda: Trochidae, Turbinidae and Trochoidea redefined''. Zoologica Scripta 37: 483–506

==External links== * [https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6353276 W.H. Dall (1881), ''Preliminary Report of dredgings by USS Blake''; Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College v. 9 pp. 1–144]

Category:Microgaza Category:Solariellidae Category:Taxa named by William Healey Dall