''Tentaoculus'' is a
genus
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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, deep-sea false
limpet
Limpets are a group of aquatic snails with a conical gastropod shell, shell shape (patelliform) and a strong, muscular foot. This general category of conical shell is known as "patelliform" (dish-shaped). Existing within the class Gastropoda, ...
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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Pseudococculinidae.
Species
Species within the genus ''Tentaoculus'' include:
* ''
Tentaoculus balantiophaga''
B.A. Marshall, 1996
* ''
Tentaoculus eritmetus''
(A. E. Verrill, 1884)
* ''
Tentaoculus georgianus''
(Dall, 1927)
* ''
Tentaoculus granulatus''
Warén & Bouchet, 2009
* ''
Tentaoculus haptricola''
B.A. Marshall, 1986
* ''
Tentaoculus lithodicola''
B.A. Marshall, 1986
* ''
Tentaoculus neolithodicola''
B.A. Marshall, 1986
* ''
Tentaoculus perlucidus''
Moskalev, 1976
References
* Moskalev, L. I. (1976). On the generic classification in Cocculinidae (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia). Trudy Instituta Okeanologii Imeni P.P. Shirshova 99: 59–70.
* Marshall B.A. (1986
1985" ''Recent and Tertiary Cocculinidae and Pseudococculinidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from New Zealand and New South Wales''. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 12: 505–546.
Pseudococculinidae
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