Tectus
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| Several views of a shell of Tectus niloticus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Tegulidae |
| Genus: | Tectus Montfort, 1810[1] |
| Type species | |
| Tectus pagodalis Montfort, 1810
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| Synonyms[2] | |
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Tectus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Tegulidae.[2]
Description
The shell has a pyramidal shape. Its base is flat, without false-umbilicus. The rhomboidal aperture is very oblique, angular, and wider than long. The outer lip is lirate within. The columella is very short, vertical, with a strong spiral fold, ending anteriorly in a knob or point.[3]
Distribution
This marine genus has a wide distribution. It occurs in the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea, in the Central and East Indian Ocean and off East Africa, Oceania, Indo-China, Indo-Malaysia, the Philippines, East India, Australia (New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia), Kermadec Islands, New Caledonia, Anadaman Islands.
Species
Species within the genus Tectus include:
- Tectus architectonicus A. Adams, 1853
- Tectus conus (Gmelin, 1791)[4]
- Tectus (Tectus) dentatus (Forskål in Niebuhr, 1775)[5]
- Tectus elatus (Lamarck, 1822)
- Tectus fenestratus (Gmelin, 1791)
- Tectus magnificus Poppe, 2004[6]
- Tectus mauritianus (Gmelin, 1791)[7]
- Tectus maximus (Koch in Philippi, 1844)
- Tectus niloticus (Linnaeus, 1767)[8]
- Tectus pyramis (Born, 1778)[9]
- Tectus royanus (Iredale, 1912)
- Tectus tentorium (Gmelin, 1791)
- Tectus triserialis (Lamarck, 1822)
- Tectus virgatus (Gmelin, 1791)[10]
- Species brought into synonymy
- Tectus concavus (Gmelin, 1791): synonym of Infundibulum concavum (Gmelin, 1791)
- Tectus pagodalis Montfort, 1810: synonym of Tectus mauritianus (Gmelin, 1791)
- Tectus tabidus Reeve, L.A., 1861: synonym of Tectus pyramis (Born, 1778)
References
- ^ Montfort (1810). Conch. Syst. 2: 186.
- ^ a b Tectus Montfort, 1810. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 7 September 2012.
- ^ Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
- ^ Tectus conus (Gmelin, 1791). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.
- ^ Tectus (Tectus) dentatus (Forskål in Niebuhr, 1775). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.
- ^ Tectus magnificus Poppe, 2004. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.
- ^ Tectus mauritianus (Gmelin, 1791). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.
- ^ Tectus niloticus (Linnaeus, 1767). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.
- ^ Tectus pyramis (Born, 1778). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.
- ^ Tectus virgatus (Gmelin, 1791). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.
- Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp
- Williams S.T., Karube S. & Ozawa T. (2008) Molecular systematics of Vetigastropoda: Trochidae, Turbinidae and Trochoidea redefined. Zoologica Scripta 37: 483–506