''Mikadotrochus'' is a
genus
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of
sea snail
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s, marine
gastropod
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This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusk
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s in the
family
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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 ...
, the slit snails.
Species
Species within the genus ''Mikadotrochus'' include:
* ''
Mikadotrochus beyrichii''
( Hilgendorf, 1877)
* ''
Mikadotrochus gotoi''
(Anseeuw, 1990)
* ''
Mikadotrochus hirasei
''Mikadotrochus hirasei'', common name the emperor's slit shell, is a species of large deepwater sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pleurotomariidae, the slit snails.
Description
The shell has a typical trochoid shape with a sp ...
hirasei''
(Pilsbry
Henry Augustus Pilsbry (7 December 1862 – 26 October 1957) was an American biologist, malacologist and carcinologist, among other areas of study. He was a dominant presence in many fields of invertebrate taxonomy for the better part of a cent ...
, 1903)
** ''
Mikadotrochus hirasei yamamotoi''
(A. Yamamoto, 1993), Species inquirenda
* ''
Mikadotrochus mikadotrochus''
Pilsbry
Henry Augustus Pilsbry (7 December 1862 – 26 October 1957) was an American biologist, malacologist and carcinologist, among other areas of study. He was a dominant presence in many fields of invertebrate taxonomy for the better part of a cent ...
* ''
Mikadotrochus salmianus''
(Rolle, 1887)
* ''Mikadotrochus nantoensis''
Lin，1975:
;Species brought into synonymy :
* ''Mikadotrochus amabilis''
Bayer, 1963: synonym of ''
Perotrochus amabilis''
(Bayer, 1963)
* ''Mikadotrochus anseeuwi''
Kanazawa & Y. Goto, 1991: synonym of ''
Perotrochus anseeuwi''
Kanazawa & Y. Goto, 1991
* ''Mikadotrochus caledonicus''
(Bouchet & Métivier, 1982): synonym of ''
Perotrochus caledonicus''
Bouchet & Métivier, 1982
* ''Mikadotrochus deforgesi''
B. Métivier, 1990: synonym of ''
Perotrochus deforgesi''
Métivier, 1990
* ''Mikadotrochus oishii''
T. Shikama, 1973: synonym of ''
Perotrochus oishii''
(Shikama, 1973)
* ''Mikadotrochus schmalzi''
T. Shikama, 1961:
synonym of ''
Mikadotrochus salmianus''
(Rolle, 1899)
References
Further reading
* Lindholm, W. A. (1927). On Pleurotomaria beyrichi Hilgendorf (Gastropoda) in the collection of Zoological Museum of the Academy of Science, with a note about the genus Pleurotomaria s. lat. Doklady Akademii nauk SSSR. 24: 409–414.
* Williams, S.T., Karube, S. & Ozawa, T. (2008) Molecular systematics of Vetigastropoda: Trochidae, Turbinidae and Trochoidea redefined. Zoologica Scripta 37, 483–506
Pleurotomariidae
Gastropod genera
Taxa named by Wassili Adolfovitch Lindholm
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