''Teremitra'' 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, 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 ...
mollusc
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s in the
family
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Pyramimitridae
Pyramimitridae, known as mitre shells, are a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic family (biology), family of sea snails, widely distributed marine (ocean), marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Mitroidea.MolluscaBase (2020). MolluscaBase. Pyrami ...
, the mitre snails.
[MolluscaBase (2020). MolluscaBase. Teremitra Kantor, Lozouet, Puillandre & Bouchet, 2014. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=746708 on 2020-02-03]
Species
Species within the genus ''Teremitra'' include:
* ''
Teremitra efatensis''
(Aubry, 1999)
* ''
Teremitra fallax''
Kantor, Lozouet, Puillandre & Bouchet, 2014
References
* Kantor Y., Lozouet P., Puillandre N. & Bouchet P. (2014) ''Lost and found: The Eocene family Pyramimitridae (Neogastropoda) discovered in the Recent fauna of the Indo-Pacific.'' Zootaxa 3754(3): 239–276
Pyramimitridae
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