Classification
- Class: Gastropoda
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- Clade: Vetigastropoda
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- Superfamily: Trochoidea
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- Family: Stomatellidae
Major Genera
- Genus: Broderipia
- Genus: Gena
- Genus: Stomatella
- Genus: Stomatia
- Genus: Synaptocochlea
Stomatella (“little mouth”) shells, with their side-flaring aperture and flattened coiling, appear to lie in a transitional position between the abalones (Haliotidae) and top shells (Trochidae), (Calliostomatidae).