Architectonica is a genus

Genus

In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 of sea snail

Snail

Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...

s, marine

Marine (ocean)

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 gastropod mollusks in the family

Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 Architectonicidae

Architectonicidae

Architectonicidae, common name the staircase shells or sundials, are a family of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the informal group "Lower Heterobranchia" of the clade Heterobranchia....

, the staircase shells or sundials.

Species

According to the World Register of Marine Species

World Register of Marine Species

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, the following species are included in the genus Architectonica

• Architectonica granulata Lamarck : synonym for Architectonica nobilis Roding, 1798
• Architectonica laevigata (Lamarck)
• Architectonica modesta (Philippi, 1848)
• Architectonica nobilis Röding, 1798 - common sundial
• Architectonica perspectiva
  Architectonica perspectiva
  Architectonica perspectiva, common name the clear or perspective sundial shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Architectonicidae, which are known as the staircase shells or sundials.- External links :*...
  
  (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Architectonica proestleri Alf & Kreipl, 2001
• Architectonica pseudoperspectiva Brocchi

The Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database also includes the following names in current use

• Architectonica bairdii (Sowerby, 1866)
• Architectonica biangulatum (Gray, 1826)
• Architectonica gualtierii Bieler, 1993
• Architectonica impressum (Nevill, 1869)
• Architectonica maxima (Philippi, 1849-b)
• Architectonica (maxima-group) Bieler, 1993
• Architectonica (perspectiva-group) Bieler, 1993
• Architectonica taylori (Hanley, 1862)
• Architectonica trochlearis (Hinds, 1844-d)
• Architectonica (Adelphotectonica) kuroharai(Kuroda & Habe in Habe, 1961-a)

Species in the genus Architectonica include:

• Architectonica acuta
• Architectonica acutissima
• Architectonica amoena
• Architectonica arcana
• Architectonica bellistriata
• Architectonica briarti
• Architectonica carocollata
• Architectonica cingulatum
• Architectonica cognata
• Architectonica cyclostomum
• Architectonica euprepes
• Architectonica fimbiaea
• Architectonica fuliginosum
• Architectonica geminicostata
• Architectonica grandiosa
• Architectonica guppyi
• Architectonica krebsii
• Architectonica kurodae

• Architectonica laevigatum
• Architectonica lutea
• Architectonica marwicki
• Architectonica mediterraneum
• Architectonica meekana
• Architectonica melajoensis
• Architectonica millegranum
• Architectonica millegranum subcanaliculatum
• Architectonica neerlandica
• Architectonica nomotoi
• Architectonica peracuta (Dall, 1889)
• Architectonica perdix

• Architectonica picta
• Architectonica placentalis (Hinds, 1844)
• Architectonica planorbis
• Architectonica planulata
• Architectonica purpurata
• Architectonica quadriseriata
• Architectonica quinquesulcata
• Architectonica reevei
  Architectonica reevei
  Architectonica reevei is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Architectonicidae, known as the staircase shells or sundials.- References :...
  
  
• Architectonica reevei venusta
• Architectonica regia
• Architectonica scrobiculata
• Architectonica simplex
• Architectonica sindermanni
• Architectonica stellata
• Architectonica sunderlandi
• Architectonica trochleare
• Architectonica uruguaya
• Architectonica voragiformis