''Trogloconcha'' is a
genus
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of
sea snail
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s, marine
gastropod
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This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusc
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s in the
family
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Larocheidae
Larocheidae is a family of small to minute sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs or micromollusc
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.
Species
Species within the genus ''Trogloconcha'' include:
* ''
Trogloconcha christinae'' Geiger, 2003
* ''
Trogloconcha lamellinodosa''
Geiger, 2012
* ''
Trogloconcha lozoueti'' Geiger, 2008
* † ''
Trogloconcha marshalli''
(Lozouet, 1998)
* ''
Trogloconcha ohashii'' Kase & Kano, 2002
* ''
Trogloconcha tesselata'' Kase & Kano, 2002
* ''
Trogloconcha yoidanyi''
Fr. Giusti, Pagli & Micali, 2018
References
* Geiger D.L. (2003) ''Phylogenetic assessment of characters proposed for the generic classification of Recent Scissurellidae (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) with a description of one new genus and six new species from Easter Island and Australia.'' Molluscan Research 23: 21–83.
* Geiger D.L. & Jansen P. (2004). ''New species of Australian Scissurellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) with remarks on Australian and Indo-Malayan species.'' Zootaxa 714:1-72.
* Geiger, D.L. (2012). Monograph of the little slit shells. Volume 1. Introduction, Scissurellidae. pp. 1–728. Volume 2. Anatomidae, Larocheidae, Depressizonidae, Sutilizonidae, Temnocinclidae. pp. 729–1291. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Monographs. Number 7.
External links
Kase T. & Kano Y. (2002). Trogloconcha, a new genus of larocheine Scissurellidae (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) from tropical Indo-Pacific submarine caves. The Veliger. 45(1): 25-32
Larocheidae
Gastropod genera
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