''Bayerotrochus'' is a

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sea snail Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...

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gastropod Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...

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Pleurotomariidae Pleurotomariidae, common name the "slit snails", is a family of large marine gastropods in the superfamily Pleurotomarioidea of the subclass Vetigastropoda. This family is a very ancient lineage; there were numerous species in the geological p ...

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selenizone A selenizone (from the Greek "selene" meaning "moon", and "zone" meaning " girdle") is an anatomical structure that exists in the shells of some families of living sea snails: the slit shells, the little slit shells and the abalone, which are ...

Species

Species within the genus ''Bayerotrochus'' include: *'' Bayerotrochus africanus'' ( Tomlin, 1948) *'' Bayerotrochus boucheti'' (Anseeuw & Poppe, 2001) *'' Bayerotrochus charlestonensis'' (Askew, 1988) *'' Bayerotrochus diluculum'' (Okutani, 1979) *'' Bayerotrochus indicus'' (Anseeuw, 1999) *'' Bayerotrochus midas'' (

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, 1966) *'' Bayerotrochus philpoppei'' Anseeuw, Poppe & Goto, 2006 *'' Bayerotrochus poppei'' Anseeuw, 2003 *'' Bayerotrochus pyramus'' (

, 1967) *'' Bayerotrochus quiquandoni'' Cossignani, 2018 *'' Bayerotrochus tangaroanus'' (Bouchet & Métivier, 1982) *'' Bayerotrochus teramachii'' ( Kuroda, 1955) *'' Bayerotrochus westralis'' (Whitehead, 1987)

References

* Anseeuw P. (2010) ''Checklist of the family Pleurotomariidae'' Pleurotomariidae {{Pleurotomariidae-stub