Vanitrochus
Vanitrochus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[1]
| Vanitrochus | |
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| Vanitrochus tragema | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Trochidae |
| Genus: | Vanitrochus Iredale, 1929 |
| Type species | |
| Solariella tragema Melvill & Standen, 1896 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Minolia (Conotrochus) Pilsbry, 1889 | |
Distribution
This marine genus occurs in the Gulf of Oman, Persian Gulf; in the Indian Ocean off Pakistan, Sri Lanka; in the Pacific Ocean off the Loyalty Islands, Tuvalu, New Caledonia and off Australia (Queensland)
Species
Species within the genus Vanitrochus include:
- Vanitrochus geertsi Poppe, Tagaro & Dekker, 2006[2]
- Vanitrochus semiustus (Fischer, 1879)
- Vanitrochus tragema (Melvill & Standen, 1896)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Vanitrochus holdsworthiana Nevill, G. & H. Nevill, 1871: synonym of Pseudominolia musiva (Gould, A.A., 1861)
References
- Vanitrochus . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 December 2012.
- Vanitrochus geertsi Poppe, Tagaro & Dekker, 2006. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 1 May 2010.
- Pilsbry, 1889 [Manual of conchology, ser. 1, 11: 197; Invalid: Junior homonym of Conotrochus Schröter, 1863 [Cnidaria];
- Iredale, 1929 [Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 9(3): 272; Used as a substitute name for Conotrochus Pilsbry, 1889, non Schröter, 1863 [Cnidaria], but Solariella tragema Melvill & Standen, 1896 was not a species originally included in Conotrochus.]
- Wilson, B., 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Odyssey Publishing, Kallaroo, WA
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