Oxystele

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Oxystele
Oxystele tigrina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Subfamily: Cantharidinae
Genus: Oxystele
Philippi, 1847

Oxystele is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[1]

Species

Oxystele burdigalensis Cossmann & Peyrot 1916, a fossil species from the Miocene of France

Species within the genus Oxystele include:

Species brought into synonymy
  • Oxystele depressa Granata-Grillo, 1877: synonym of Tomura depressa (Granata-Grillo, 1877)

References

  • Williams S.T., Donald K.M., Spencer H.G. & Nakano T. (2010) Molecular systematics of the marine gastropod families Trochidae and Calliostomatidae (Mollusca: Superfamily Trochoidea). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 54:783-809

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