Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Solenogastres > Family Dondersiidae

Micromenia Leloup, 1948

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Rupertomenia*	Schwabl, 1955	synonym

Children

Micromenia fodiens (Schwabl, 1955)
Micromenia simplex Leloup, 1948
Micromenia subrubra Salvini-Plawen, 2003

Literature

original description	Leloup, E. (1948). Un nouveau Solenogastre à peau nue de l'Océan Glacial arctique, Micromenia simplex g. nov., sp. nov. Bulletin du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique. 24 (19): 1-7.
basis of record	Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213.
additional source	Cobo, M. C.; Kocot, K. M. (2020). Micromenia amphiatlantica sp. nov.: First solenogaster (Mollusca, Aplacophora) with an amphi-Atlantic distribution and insight into abyssal solenogaster diversity. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers. 157: 103189.
additional source	Vaught, K.C.; Abbott, R.T.; Boss, K.J. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne. ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
additional source	García-Álvarez, O. & Salvini-Plawen, L. v. (2007). Species and diagnosis of the families and genera of Solenogastres (Mollusca). Iberus. 25(2): 73-143.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Micromenia Leloup, 1948. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137910