Acremodonta
Appearance
Acremodonta | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
Family: | Ataphridae |
Genus: | Acremodonta B. A. Marshall, 1983 [1] |
Type species | |
Thoristella crassicosta Powell, 1937 |
Acremodonta is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Ataphridae.[2]
The radula of species in this genus have very long and narrow teeth and dendritic cusps that are repeatedly divided.[3]
Species
Species within the genus Acremodonta include:
- Acremodonta crassicosta (Powell, 1937)
References
- ^ Marshall 1983 Record natn. Mus. N.Z. 2 (10): 127.
- ^ Trochaclis. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 21 June 2012.
- ^ Robert Robertson, The Edible West Indian "Whelk" Cittarium pica (Gastropoda: Trochidae): Natural History with New Observations, Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol. 153, Dec., 2003