Africotriton

Africotriton is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.[1]

Africotriton
Shell of Africotriton adelphum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Cancellarioidea
Family: Cancellariidae
Genus: Africotriton
Beu & Marshall, 1987
Type species
Epidromus crebriliratus G.B. Sowerby III, 1903
Species

See text

Species

Species within the genus Africotriton include:

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References
  1. Africotriton Beu & Marshall, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 March 2011.
  2. Africotriton adelphum Bouchet & Petit, 2002. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 April 2010.
  3. Africotriton carinapex Beu & Maxwell, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 April 2010.
  4. Africotriton crebriliratus (G.B. Sowerby III, 1903). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 April 2010.
  5. Africotriton fictilis (Hinds, 1844a). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 April 2010.
  6. Africotriton kilburni Beu & Maxwell, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 April 2010.
  7. Africotriton multinodulatus Beu & Maxwell, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 April 2010.
  8. Africotriton petiti Beu & Maxwell, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 April 2010.
  • 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
  • Hemmen J. (2007). Recent Cancellariidae. Wiesbaden, 428pp


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