Anticlimax (gastropod)

Anticlimax
Shell of Anticlimax cyclist (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Truncatelloidea
Family:	Tornidae
Genus:	Anticlimax Pilsbry & McGinty, 1946
Type species
† Teinostoma calliglyptum Dall, 1903
Synonyms[1]
Anticlimax (Subclimax) Pilsbry & Olsson, 1950 · accepted, alternate representation Canimarina Aguayo & Borro, 1946 Climacia Dall, 1903 (Invalid: junior homonym of Climacia M'Lachlan, 1869 [Neuroptera]; Climacina and Anticlimax are replacement names) Climacina Aguayo & Borro, 1946 (Invalid: junior homonym of Gemmellaro, 1878; Anticlimax is a replacement name) Lioprora Laseron, 1958

Anticlimax is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Tornidae within the superfamily Truncatelloidea.^[1]

Species[]

Species within the genus Anticlimax include:

Species brought into synonymy

• Anticlimax (Subclimax) Pilsbry & Olsson, 1950: synonym of Anticlimax Pilsbry & McGinty, 1946 (alternate representation)
• † Anticlimax (Subclimax) hispaniolensis Pilsbry & Olsson, 1950: synonym of † Anticlimax hispaniolensis Pilsbry & Olsson, 1950

References[]

• Pilsbry H.A. & McGinty T.L. (1946). Vitrinellidae of Florida, part 4. Nautilus, 60(1): 12-18, pl. 2

External links[]

• To World Register of Marine Species