Mammilla
Five views of a shell of Mammilla sebae
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Naticidae
Genus:	Mammilla Schumacher, 1817
Type species
Mammilla fasciata Schumacher, 1817
Synonyms
Mamilla (incorrect spelling of generic name) Naticaria Swainson, 1840 Polinices (Mammilla) Schumacher, 1817 Ruma Gray, 1847

Mammilla is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Polinicinae of the family Naticidae, the moon snails.^[1]

Species within the genus Mamilla include:

• Mammilla caprae (Philippi, 1852)
• Mammilla fibrosa (Gray, 1850)
• Mammilla kurodai (Iw. Taki, 1944)
• Mammilla mammata (Röding, 1798)
• Mammilla maura (Lamarck, 1816)
• Mammilla melanostoma (Gmelin, 1791)^[2]
• Mammilla melanostomoides (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832)
• Mammilla mikawaensis Azuma, 1961
• Mammilla priamus (Récluz, 1844)
• Mammilla sebae (Récluz, 1844)
• Mammilla simiae (Deshayes, 1848)^[3]
• Mammilla syrphetodes (Kilburn, 1976)

Species brought into synonymy

• Mammilla fasciata Schumacher, 1817: synonym of Mammilla mammata (Röding, 1798)
• Mammilla plumatilis Iredale, 1936: synonym of Mammilla fibrosa (Gray, 1850)
• Mammilla propesimiae Iredale, 1929: synonym of Mammilla simiae (Deshayes, 1838)

Further investigation needed

• Mammilla bernardii (Récluz, 1851) (species inquirenda)

• Torigoe K. & Inaba A. (2011) Revision on the classification of Recent Naticidae. Bulletin of the Nishinomiya Shell Museum 7: 133 + 15 pp., 4 pls.

• Schumacher, C. F. (1817). Essai d'un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés. Schultz, Copenghagen. iv + 288 pp., 22 pls.
• Huelsken T., Tapken D., Dahlmann T., Wägele H., Riginos C. & Hollmann M. (2012) Systematics and phylogenetic species delimitation within Polinices s.l. (Caenogastropoda: Naticidae) based on molecular data and shell morphology. Organisms, Diversity & Evolution 12: 349-375.

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