{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}} {{Automatic_taxobox | image = Obtusella intersecta 01.jpg | image_caption = ''Obtusella intersecta'' shell | taxon = Obtusella | authority = Cossmann, 1921<ref>Cossmann M. (1921). ''Essais Paléoconch.'', Comp., '''12''': 43.</ref> | type_species = ''Obtusella intersecta'' | type_species_authority = (S. Wood, 1857) }}

'''''Obtusella''''' is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Rissoidae.<ref name="WoRMS">{{cite WoRMS |author= Serge Gofas |year=2012 |title=''Obtusella'' Cossmann, 1921 |id=138450 |accessdate=July 20, 2012}}</ref>

==Species== Seven species are currently recognised in the genus ''Obtusella''.<ref name="WoRMS"/> * ''Obtusella erinacea'' <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small><ref>{{cite WoRMS |year=2011 |title=''Obtusella erinacea'' (Linnaeus, 1758) |id=153680 |accessdate=July 20, 2012}}</ref> * ''Obtusella intersecta'' <small>(S. Wood, 1857)</small> – syn. ''Obtusella alderi'' <small>(Jeffreys, 1858)</small><ref>{{cite WoRMS |author=Gary Rosenberg & Serge Gofas |year=2012 |title=''Obtusella intersecta'' |id=141304 |accessdate=July 20, 2012}}</ref> * ''Obtusella lata'' <small>Rolán & Rubio, 1999</small><ref>{{cite WoRMS |year=2012 |title=''Obtusella lata'' |id=224698 |accessdate=July 20, 2012}}</ref> * ''Obtusella macilenta'' <small>(Monterosato, 1880)</small><ref>{{cite WoRMS |author=Serge Gofas |year=2011 |title=''Obtusella macilenta'' |id=141305 |accessdate=July 20, 2012}}</ref> * ''Obtusella orisparvi'' <small>Moreno, Peñas & Rolán, 2003</small><ref>{{cite WoRMS |author=Philippe Bouchet |year=2011 |title=''Obtusella orisparvi'' Moreno, Peñas & Rolán, 2003 |id=475260 |accessdate=July 20, 2012}}</ref> * ''Obtusella roseotincta'' <small>(Dautzenberg, 1889)</small><ref>{{cite WoRMS |author=Serge Gofas |year=2010 |title=''Obtusella roseotincta'' (Dautzenberg, 1889) |db=Marine Mollusca |id=141306 |accessdate=July 20, 2012}}</ref> * ''Obtusella tumidula'' <small>(G. O. Sars, 1878)</small><ref>{{cite WoRMS |author=Gary Rosenberg & Serge Gofas |year=2012 |title=''Obtusella tumidula'' |id=141307 |accessdate=July 20, 2012}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Further reading== * Ponder W. F. (1985). ''A review of the Genera of the Rissoidae (Mollusca: Mesogastropoda: Rissoacea)''. Records of the Australian Museum supplement 4: 1-221 * Vaught, K. C. (1989). ''A classification of the living Mollusca''. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). {{ISBN|0-915826-22-4}}. XII, 195 pp. * 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

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Category:Rissoidae Category:Taxa named by Maurice Cossmann

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