''Trenchia'' 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 ...

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 ...

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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 Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...

s, unassigned in the

superfamily SUPERFAMILY is a database and search platform of structural and functional annotation for all proteins and genomes. It classifies amino acid sequences into known structural domains, especially into SCOP superfamilies. Domains are functional, str ...

Seguenzioidea Seguenzioidea is a family (biology), superfamily of sea snails, marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Vetigastropoda.Gofas, S. (2010). Seguenzioidea. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database ...

.Rosenberg, G. (2012). ''Trenchia'' Knudsen, 1964. Accessed through:

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at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=428564 on 27 March 2013Galathea II, Danish Deep Sea Expedition 1950-52

Notes

Additional information regarding this genus: * It was previously placed in the subfamily Skeneidae of the ''

Turbinidae Turbinidae, the turban snails, are a family of small to large marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Trochoidea.Bouchet, P. (2014). Turbinidae Rafinesque, 1815. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecie ...

'' as a placeholder, since many other taxa in Skeneidae were of uncertain phylogenetic position.

Species

Species within the genus ''Trenchia'' include: * '' Trenchia agulhasae'' (Clarke, 1961) * '' Trenchia anselmoi'' Rubio & Rolán, 2013 * '' Trenchia biangulata'' Rubio & Rolán, 2013 * ''

Trenchia teriuga ''Trenchia'' is a genus of sea snails, marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks, unassigned in the superfamily (biology), superfamily Seguenzioidea.Rosenberg, G. (2012). ''Trenchia'' Knudsen, 1964. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Spe ...

'' Hoffman, Gofas & Freiwald, 2020 * '' Trenchia wolffi'' Knudsen, 1964 * ''

Trenchia xenos ''Trenchia xenos'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc, unassigned in the superfamily Seguenzioidea.Bouchet, P. (2012). ''Xyloskenea xenos''. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/a ...

'' (Hoffman, Van Heugten & Lavaleye, 2010) ;Species brought into synonymy: * ''Trenchia argentinae'' (Clarke, 1961): synonym of '' Trenchia agulhasae argentinae'' (Clarke, 1961)

References

* Warén A. & Bouchet P. (1993) New records, species, genera, and a new family of gastropods from hydrothermal vents and hydrocarbon seeps. Zoologica Scripta 22: 1-90

External links

World Register of Marine Species

Knudsen J. 1964. ''Scaphopoda and Gastropoda from depths exceeding 6000 meters''. Galathea Report 7: 125-136

Kano Y., Chikyu, E. & Warén, A. (2009) ''Morphological, ecological and molecular characterization of the enigmatic planispiral snail genus Adeuomphalus (Vetigastropoda: Seguenzioidea).'' Journal of Molluscan Studies, 75:397-418
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