Africotriton
| Africotriton | |
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| Shell of Africotriton adelphum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Volutoidea |
| Family: | Cancellariidae |
| Subfamily: | Plesiotritoninae |
| Genus: | Africotriton Beu & Marshall, 1987 |
| Type species | |
| Epidromus crebriliratus G.B. Sowerby III, 1903
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Africotriton is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.[1]
Species[edit]
Species within the genus Africotriton include:
- Africotriton adelphum Bouchet & Petit, 2002[2]
- Africotriton carinapex Beu & Maxwell, 1987[3]
- Africotriton crebriliratus (G.B. Sowerby III, 1903)[4]
- Africotriton fictilis (Hinds, 1844a)[5]
- Africotriton kilburni Beu & Maxwell, 1987[6]
- Africotriton multinodulatus Beu & Maxwell, 1987[7]
- Africotriton petiti Beu & Maxwell, 1987[8]
References[edit]
- ^ Africotriton Beu & Marshall, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 March 2011.
- ^ Africotriton adelphum Bouchet & Petit, 2002. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 April 2010.
- ^ Africotriton carinapex Beu & Maxwell, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 April 2010.
- ^ Africotriton crebriliratus (G.B. Sowerby III, 1903). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 April 2010.
- ^ Africotriton fictilis (Hinds, 1844a). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 April 2010.
- ^ Africotriton kilburni Beu & Maxwell, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 April 2010.
- ^ Africotriton multinodulatus Beu & Maxwell, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 April 2010.
- ^ Africotriton petiti Beu & Maxwell, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 April 2010.
- 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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