Cecina is a genus of sea snails which have a gill and an operculum, gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Pomatiopsidae.
They live in shallow waters in littoral and supralittoral habitats.Prozorova L. A. (2003). "Morphological Features of Supralittoral Mollusks of the Genus Cecina (Gastropoda: Pomatiopsidae) from Peter the Great Bay, Sea of Japan ". Russian Journal of Marine Biology 29(1): 49-52. .
Distribution
The distribution of the genus Cecina includes the Sea of Japan in Primorsky Krai, Russia, Japan and Washington state, USA.Morrison J. P. E. (1963). "Cecina from the State of Washington". The Nautilus 76(4): 150-151.
Species In 1861, Arthur Adams described the genus Cecina as a monotypic genus with Cecina manchurica as the only species. The current classification of Cecina follows Davis (1979)Davis G. M. (1979). "The origin and evolution of the gastropod family Pomatiopsidae, with emphasis on the Mekong river Triculinae". Academy of natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Monograph 20: 1-120. and other authors.Kameda Y. & Kato M. (2011). "Terrestrial invasion of pomatiopsid gastropods in the heavy-snow region of the Japanese Archipelago". BMC Evolutionary Biology 11: 118. .
In 1996, Larisa A. Prozorova reviewed the genus, described 6 new species of Cecina and re-established Cecina tatarica as a separate species. Прозорова Л. А. [Prozorova L. A.] (1996). "Виды рода Cecina (Gastropoda, Pomatiopsidae) Дальнего Востока России. [Species composition of the genus Cecina (Gastropoda, Pomatiopsidae from the Russian far East]". Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 75(5): 653-663.
There are eight species within the genus Cecina: Cecina alta Prozorova, 1996WoRMS (2011). Cecina alta Prozorova, 1996. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=576572 on 2011-07-14 Cecina elenae Prozorova, 1996 Cecina kunashirica Prozorova, 1996 Cecina manchurica A. Adams, 1861WoRMS (2010). Cecina manchurica A. Adams, 1861. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=397034 on 2011-04-04 - type species Cecina murshudovi Prozorova, 1996 Cecina satrae Prozorova, 1996 Cecina scarlatoi Prozorova, 1996 Cecina tatarica (Schrenck, 1867)
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