Sukashitrochus
Encyclopedia
Sukashitrochus is a genus
of sea snail
s, marine gastropod mollusks in the family
Scissurellidae
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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
Sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for those snails that normally live in saltwater, marine gastropod molluscs....
s, marine 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...
Scissurellidae
Scissurellidae
Scissurellidae, sometimes known by the common name little slit snails, are a taxonomic family of minute sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the clade Vetigastropoda...
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Species
Species within the genus Sukashitrochus include:- Sukashitrochus armillatus (Yaron, 1983)
- Sukashitrochus atkinsoni (Tenison Woods, 1876)
- Sukashitrochus carinatus (A. Adams, 1862) - type species
- Sukashitrochus dorbignyi (Audouin, 1826)
- Sukashitrochus lyallensis (Finlay, 1926)
- Sukashitrochus maraisi Herbert, 1986
- Sukashitrochus morleti (Crosse, 1880) - synonyms: Sukashitrochus indonesicus Bandel, 1998; Sukashitrochus simplex Bandel, 1998
- Sukashitrochus pulcher (Petterd, 1884)
- Sukashitrochus tricarinatus (Yaron, 1983)
External links
- Geiger D. L. (2003). "Phylogenetic assessment of characters proposed for the generic classification of Recent Scissurellidae (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) with a description of one new genus and six new species from Easter Island and Australia". Molluscan Research 23(1): 21-83. doi:10.1071/MR02017, abstract. PDF.
- Haszprunaer G. (1988). "Sukashitrochus sp., a scissurellid with heteropod-like locomotion (Mollusca, Archaeogastropoda)". Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 90B: 367-371. PDF.