Sukashitrochus

Sukashitrochus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Scissurellidae.[2]

Sukashitrochus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily:	Scissurelloidea
Family:	Scissurellidae
Genus:	Sukashitrochus Habe & Kosuge, 1964[1]
Type species
Scissurella carinata A. Adams, 1862

Species

Species within the genus Sukashitrochus include:[2]

• Sukashitrochus atkinsoni (Tenison Woods, 1876)
• Sukashitrochus carinatus (A. Adams, 1862) - type species
• Sukashitrochus dorbignyi (Audouin, 1826)
• Sukashitrochus estotiensis Lozouet, 1999
• Sukashitrochus lyallensis (Finlay, 1926)
• Sukashitrochus morleti (Crosse, 1880) - synonyms: Sukashitrochus indonesicus Bandel, 1998;[3] Sukashitrochus simplex Bandel, 1998[4]
• Sukashitrochus pulcher (Petterd, 1884)

Species brought into synonymy

• Sukashitrochus armillatus (Yaron, 1983): synonym of Sukashitrochus dorbignyi (Audouin, 1826)
• Sukashitrochus indonesicus Bandel, 1998: synonym of Sukashitrochus morleti (Crosse, 1880)
• Sukashitrochus maraisi Herbert, 1986: synonym of Sukashitrochus dorbignyi (Audouin, 1826)
• Sukashitrochus mirandus (A. Adams, 1862): synonym of Sinezona miranda (A. Adams, 1862) (nomen dubium)
• Sukashitrochus simplex Bandel, 1998: synonym of Sukashitrochus morleti (Crosse, 1880)
• Sukashitrochus tasmanicus (Petterd, 1879): synonym of Sukashitrochus atkinsoni (Tenison Woods, 1876)
• Sukashitrochus tricarinatus (Yaron, 1983): synonym of Sukashitrochus dorbignyi (Audouin, 1826)

References

1. Habe & Kosuge (1964). A list of the Indo-Pacific molluscs, concerning [sic] to the Japanese molluscan fauna (1). Superfamily Pleurotomarioidea. National Science Museum, Tokyo: 3.
2. Sukashitrochus Habe & Kosuge, 1964. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 18 July 2012.
3. Sukashitrochus indonesicus Bandel, 1998. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 11 April 2010.
4. Sukashitrochus simplex Bandel, 1998. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 11 April 2010.

• 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

• 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(1): 21-83. doi:10.1071/MR02017, abstract. PDF.
• Haszprunaer G. (1988). "Sukashitrochus sp., a scissurellid with heteropod-like locomotion (Mollusca, Archaeogastropoda)". Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 90B: 367-371. PDF.