Prisogaster

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Prisogaster
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Turbinidae
Subfamily: Prisogasterinae
Genus: Prisogaster
Mörch, 1850

Prisogaster is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.[1]

Species

Species within the genus Prisogaster include:

References

  1. Prisogaster .  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.
  2. Prisogaster niger (Wood, 1828).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.
  • Williams, S.T. (2007). Origins and diversification of Indo-West Pacific marine fauna: evolutionary history and biogeography of turban shells (Gastropoda, Turbinidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2007, 92, 573–592
  • Alf A. & Kreipl K. (2011) The family Turbinidae. Subfamilies Turbininae Rafinesque, 1815 and Prisogasterinae Hickman & McLean, 1990. In: G.T. Poppe & K. Groh (eds), A Conchological Iconography. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. pp. 1-82, pls 104-245

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