''Plesiotriton'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...
of
sea snails, marine
gastropod molluscs in the subfamily
Plesiotritoninae of the
family
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Cancellariidae
Cancellariidae, common name the nutmeg snails or nutmeg shells, are a family of small to medium-large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Neogastropoda. Some of the shells of the species in this family resemble a nutmeg seed.
...
, the nutmeg snails.
Species
Species within the genus ''Plesiotriton'' include:
* † ''
Plesiotriton angustus''
(Watelet, 1851)
* † ''
Plesiotriton aucoini''
Lesport, Cluzaud & Verhecken, 2015
* † ''
Plesiotriton cailloelensis''
Pacaud, Ledon & Loubry, 2015
* † ''
Plesiotriton calciatus''
Pacaud, Ledon & Loubry, 2015
* † ''
Plesiotriton camiadeorum''
Lesport, Cluzaud & Verhecken, 2015
* † ''
Plesiotriton cedri''
(J. Gardner, 1935)
* † ''
Plesiotriton clandestinus''
Pacaud, Ledon & Loubry, 2015
* † ''
Plesiotriton cretaceus''
Sohl, 1960
* † ''
Plesiotriton evanesco
''Plesiotriton'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Plesiotritoninae of the family (biology), family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.
Species
Species within the genus ''Plesiotriton'' include:
* † ''Plesiotr ...
''
Pacaud, Ledon & Loubry, 2015
* † ''
Plesiotriton ganensis''
Lesport, Cluzaud & Verhecken, 2015
* † ''
Plesiotriton hillegondae''
(Martin, 1914)
* † ''
Plesiotriton imbricatus''
(Dareste de la Chavanne, 1910)
* † ''
Plesiotriton jacquesponsi''
Pacaud, Ledon & Loubry, 2015
* † ''
Plesiotriton latus''
(Dareste de la Chavanne, 1910)
* ''
Plesiotriton mirabilis''
Beu & Maxwell, 1987
* ''
Plesiotriton silinoensis''
Verhecken, 2011
* † ''
Plesiotriton steni''
Schnetler & Petit, 2006
* † ''
Plesiotriton teuleraensis''
Lesport, Cluzaud & Verhecken, 2015
* ''
Plesiotriton vivus''
Habe & Okutani, 1981
* † ''
Plesiotriton vokesae''
(Allen, 1970)
* † ''
Plesiotriton volutellus''
(Lamarck, 1803)
;Species brought into synonymy:
* † ''Plesiotriton deshayesianus''
Beu & Maxwell, 1987: synonym of † ''
Colubratriton deshayesianus''
(Beu & Maxwell, 1987) (original combination)
* † ''Plesiotriton (Turehua)''
Marwick, 1943: synonym of † ''
Turehua''
Marwick, 1943
References
* Beu A.G. & Maxwell P.A. (1987) ''A revision of the fossil and living gastropods related to Plesiotriton Fischer, 1884 (Family Cancellariidae, Subfamily Plesiotritoninae n. subfam.). With an appendix: Genera of Buccinidae Pisaniinae related to Colubraria Schumacher, 1817''. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 54:1-140
External links
Fischer P. (1880-1887). Manuel de Conchyliologie et de Paléontologie Conchyliologique. Paris, Savy pp. XXIV + 1369 + pl. 23
Cancellariidae
Gastropod genera
{{Cancellariidae-stub