Africotriton

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Africotriton
Africotriton adelphum (MNHN-IM-2000-2109).jpeg
Shell of Africotriton adelphum
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Cancellarioidea
Family: Cancellariidae
Genus: Africotriton
Beu & Marshall, 1987
Type species
Epidromus crebriliratus
G.B. Sowerby III, 1903
Species

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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:

References[]

  • 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


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