Tegula (genus)

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Tegula

Tegula pulligo

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Orthogastropoda
Order:	Archaeogastropoda
Superfamily:	Trochacea
Family:	Trochidae
Genus:	Tegula Lesson, 1835

Species

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Tegula is a genus of small to medium-sized sea snails. This genus, and many other genera in the same family, are commonly called "top snails" because of their shape, which is like an old-fashioned top. These are marine gastropod molluscs in the family Trochidae, the top snails.

[edit] Species within the genus Tegula

Tegula aureotincta (Forbes, 1850) - gilded tegula
Tegula brunnea Philippi, 1848 - brown tegula
Tegula corteziana Mclean, 1970
Tegula eiseni Jordan, 1936 - banded tegula, western banded tegula
Tegula excavata (Lamarck, 1822) - green-base tegula
Tegula fasciata (Born, 1778) - silky tegula
Tegula felipenis Mclean, 1970
Tegula funebralis (A. Adams, 1855) - black tegula
Tegula gallina (Forbes, 1850) - speckled tegula
Tegula gruneri (Philippi, 1849) - gem tegula
Tegula hotessieriana (d'Orbigny, 1842) - Caribbean tegula
Tegula lividomaculata (C. B. Adams, 1845) - West Indian tegula
Tegula maculostriata (C. B. Adams)
Tegula mariana Dall, 1919
Tegula montereyi (Kiener, 1850) - Monterey tegula
Tegula patagonica (d'Orbigny, 1840)
Tegula pellisserpentis Wood, 1828
Tegula pulligo (Gmelin, 1791) - dusky tegula
Tegula regina Stearns, 1892 - queen tegula
Tegula rubroflammulata (Koch, 1843)
Tegula verdispira J. H. McLean, 1970
Tegula viridula (Gmelin, 1791)

Live snails and hermit-crabbed shells of Tegula funebralis and hermit-crabbed shells of Tegula brunnea on a dead Gumboot chiton in a tide pool in central California