Umbonium | |
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Wheel shell, Umbonium zelandica | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Vetigastropoda |
Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
Family: | Trochidae |
Subfamily: | Umboniinae |
Tribe: | Umboniini |
Genus: | Umbonium Link, 1807[1] |
Species | |
See text. |
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Synonyms[2] | |
Suchium Makiyama, 1924 |
Umbonium, sometimes known as "button top shells", is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Trochidae, the top snails.
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The shells of the species in this genus are low-spired and shaped like a button, and the umbilicus of the shell is often completely covered with a thick and smooth callus.
Species in the genus Umbonium include: