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Stellaria
Five views of a shell of Stellaria solaris
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Xenophoroidea
Family:	Xenophoridae
Genus:	Stellaria Schmidt in Möller, 1832
Type species
Trochus solaris Linnaeus, 1764
Synonyms
Haliphoebus Fischer in Kiener, 1879 Xenophora (Stellaria) Schmidt, 1832

Stellaria is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Xenophoridae, the carrier shells.

Description

Shells medium-sized to large (diameter of base without attachments 65–128 mm; height of shell 48–70 mm), rather depressed to moderately high-spired, widely umbilicate, with wide peripheral flange (30-40% of total diameter at base) which is simple in some species or is digitate or divided into numerous long, hollow, narrow, parallel-sided spines. Ventral side of peripheral flange non-porcellanous. Foreign objects usually small to very small covering less than 30% of dorsal surface.

Species

Species within the genus Stellaria include:

• Stellaria chinensis (Philippi, 1841)
• Stellaria gigantea (Schepman, 1909)
• Stellaria lamberti (Souverbie, 1871)
• Stellaria solaris (Linnaeus, 1764) (type species of Stellaria)
• Stellaria testigera (Bronn, 1831)
  • Stellaria testigera digitata von Martens, 1878
  • Stellaria testigera profunda Ponder, 1983

References

1. Schmidt (1832). In: Möller. Isis (Oken) 1832: 130.
2. ^ WoRMS (2010). Stellaria Möller, 1832. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206853 on 2010-08-07
3. ^ Kreipl, K. & Alf, A. (1999): Recent Xenophoridae. 148 pp. incl. 28 color plts. ConchBooks, Hackenheim, ISBN 3-925919-26-0.
4. WoRMS (2010). Stellaria chinensis (Philippi, 1841). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=468047 on 2010-08-07
5. WoRMS (2010). Stellaria gigantea (Schepman, 1909). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=468048 on 2010-08-07
6. WoRMS (2010). Stellaria lamberti (Souverbie, 1871). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=468049 on 2010-08-07
7. WoRMS (2010). Stellaria solaris (Linnaeus, 1764). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=217332 on 2010-08-07
8. WoRMS (2010). Stellaria testigera (Bronn, 1831). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=468050 on 2010-08-07

• Xenophoridae