Plesiotriton

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

Plesiotriton
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Cancellarioidea
Family:
Cancellariidae
Genus:
Plesiotriton

P. Fischer, 1884
Type species
† Cancellaria volutella Lamarck, 1803
Synonyms

Triton (Plesiotriton) P. Fischer, 1884 (original rank)

Species

Species within the genus Plesiotriton include:

  • † Plesiotriton angustus (Watelet, 1851)
  • † Plesiotriton aucoini Lesport, Cluzaud & Verhecken, 2015
  • † Plesiotriton cailloelensis Pacaud, Ledon & Loubry, 2015
  • † Plesiotriton calciatus Pacaud, Ledon & Loubry, 2015
  • † Plesiotriton camiadeorum Lesport, Cluzaud & Verhecken, 2015
  • † Plesiotriton clandestinus Pacaud, Ledon & Loubry, 2015
  • † Plesiotriton evanesco Pacaud, Ledon & Loubry, 2015
  • † Plesiotriton ganensis Lesport, Cluzaud & Verhecken, 2015
  • † Plesiotriton jacquesponsi Pacaud, Ledon & Loubry, 2015
  • Plesiotriton mirabilis Beu & Maxwell, 1987[2]
  • Plesiotriton silinoensis Verhecken, 2011
  • † Plesiotriton teuleraensis Lesport, Cluzaud & Verhecken, 2015
  • Plesiotriton vivus Habe & Okutani, 1981[3]
  • † Plesiotriton volutellus (Lamarck, 1803)
Species brought into synonymy
  • † Plesiotriton deshayesianus Beu & Maxwell, 1987: synonym of † Colubratriton deshayesianus (Beu & Maxwell, 1987) (original combination)

References
  1. Plesiotriton P. Fischer, 1884. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 April 2010.
  2. Plesiotriton mirabilis Beu & Maxwell, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 April 2010.
  3. Plesiotriton vivus Habe & Okutani, 1981. 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


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