''Pectinodonta'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
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 ...
s, the
true limpet
The Patellogastropoda, common name true limpets and historically called the Docoglossa, are members of a major phylogenetic group of marine gastropods, treated by experts either as a clade or as a taxonomic order.
The clade Patellogastropoda is ...
s, marine
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 ...
mollusk
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s in the
family
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Pectinodontidae
Pectinodontidae is a family (biology), family of sea snails or true limpets, marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Lottioidea, the true limpets.Lottioidea
Taxonomy
This family was previously ranked as subfamily Pectinodo ...
.
Species
Species within the genus ''Pectinodonta'' include:
* ''
Pectinodonta alis''
B. A. Marshall, Puillandre, Lambourdière, Couloux & Samadi, 2016
* ''
Pectinodonta alpha''
B. A. Marshall, Puillandre, Lambourdière, Couloux & Samadi, 2016
* ''
Pectinodonta alta''
Schepman, 1908
* ''
Pectinodonta arcuata''
Dall, 1882
* ''
Pectinodonta aupouria''
B. A. Marshall, 1985
* ''
Pectinodonta aurora''
B. A. Marshall, Puillandre, Lambourdière, Couloux & Samadi, 2016
* ''
Pectinodonta beta''
B. A. Marshall, Puillandre, Lambourdière, Couloux & Samadi, 2016
* ''
Pectinodonta borealis''
Kaim, Hryniewic, C. Little & Nakrem, 2017 †
* † ''
Pectinodonta coniformis''
(Marwick, 1931)
* ''
Pectinodonta gamma''
B. A. Marshall, Puillandre, Lambourdière, Couloux & Samadi, 2016
* ''
Pectinodonta gilbertvossi''
Olsson, 1971
* † ''
Pectinodonta kapalae''
B. A. Marshall, 1985
* ''
Pectinodonta komitica''
B. A. Marshall, 1985
* ''
Pectinodonta marinovichi''
Marshall, 1998
* ''
Pectinodonta maxima
''Pectinodonta maxima'' is a species of sea snail, a true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pectinodontidae
Pectinodontidae is a family (biology), family of sea snails or true limpets, marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks ...
''
(Dautzenberg, 1925)
* ''
Pectinodonta mazuae''
S.-Q. Zhang & S.-P. Zhang, 2018
* ''
Pectinodonta morioria''
B. A. Marshall, 1985
* ''
Pectinodonta obtusa''
(Thiele, 1925)
* ''
Pectinodonta orientalis''
Schepman, 1908
* † ''
Pectinodonta palaeoxylodia''
Lindberg & Hedegaard, 1996
* ''
Pectinodonta philippinarum''
B. A. Marshall, Puillandre, Lambourdière, Couloux & Samadi, 2016
* ''
Pectinodonta rhyssa
''Pectinodonta rhyssa'' is a species of sea snail, a true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pectinodontidae
Pectinodontidae is a family (biology), family of sea snails or true limpets, marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks ...
''
(Dall, 1925)
* † ''
Pectinodonta waitemata''
B. A. Marshall, 1985
References
* Marshall, B. A.; Puillandre, N.; Lambourdiere, J.; Couloux, A.; Samadi, S. (2016). Deep-sea wood-eating limpets of the genus Pectinodonta Dall, 1882 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Patellogastropoda: Pectinodontidae) from the tropical West Pacific. In: V. Héros et al. (eds), Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 29. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. 208: 23
External links
Dall, W. H. (1882). On certain limpets and chitons from the deep waters off the eastern coast of the United States. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 4: 400-414.Marshall, B. A. (1985). Recent and Tertiary deep-sea limpets of the genus Pectinodonta Dall (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from New Zealand and New South Wales. New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 12 (2): 273-282
Pectinodontidae
Gastropod genera
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