Africotriton
| Africotriton | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Cancellarioidea |
| Family: | Cancellariidae |
| Subfamily: | Plesiotritoninae |
| Genus: | Africotriton Beu & Marshall, 1987 |
| Type species | |
| Epidromus crebriliratus G.B. Sowerby III, 1903 | |
Africotriton is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.[1]
Species
Species within the genus Africotriton include:
- Africotriton adelphum Bouchet & Petit, 2002[2]
- Africotriton carinapex Beu & Maxwell, 1987[3]
- Africotriton crebriliratus (G.B. Sowerby III, 1903)[4]
- Africotriton fictilis (Hinds, 1844a)[5]
- Africotriton kilburni Beu & Maxwell, 1987[6]
- Africotriton multinodulatus Beu & Maxwell, 1987[7]
- Africotriton petiti Beu & Maxwell, 1987[8]
References
- ↑ Africotriton Beu & Marshall, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 March 2011.
- ↑ Africotriton adelphum Bouchet & Petit, 2002. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 April 2010.
- ↑ Africotriton carinapex Beu & Maxwell, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 April 2010.
- ↑ Africotriton crebriliratus (G.B. Sowerby III, 1903). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 April 2010.
- ↑ Africotriton fictilis (Hinds, 1844a). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 April 2010.
- ↑ Africotriton kilburni Beu & Maxwell, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 April 2010.
- ↑ Africotriton multinodulatus Beu & Maxwell, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 April 2010.
- ↑ Africotriton petiti Beu & Maxwell, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 April 2010.
- Beu A.G. & Maxwell P.A. (1987) A revision of the fossil and living gastropods related to Plesiotriton Fischer, 1884 (Family Cancellariidae, Subfamily Plesiotritoninae n. subfam.). With an appendix: Genera of Buccinidae Pisaniinae related to Colubraria Schumacher, 1817. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 54:1-140
- Hemmen J. (2007). Recent Cancellariidae. Wiesbaden, 428pp