Trichosirius

Trichosirius is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Capulidae (previously Trichotropidae).[2]

Trichosirius
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Capuloidea
Family:	Capulidae
Genus:	Trichosirius Finlay, 1926[1]
Type species
Trichotropis inornata Hutton, 1873
Species
See text
Synonyms
† Trichosirius (Eosirius) Maxwell, 1966· accepted, alternate representation Trichosirius (Miplioderma) Laws, 1940 · accepted, alternate representation Trichosirius (Trichosirius) Finlay, 1926 · accepted, alternate representation

Species

Species within the genus Trichosirius include:

• Trichosirius cavatocarinatus (Laws, 1940)
• Trichosirius inornatus (Hutton, 1873)
• Trichosirius octocarinatus (Powell, 1931)
• Trichosirius ornatus (Hutton, 1873)
• † Trichosirius (Eosirius) admeteformis (Maxwell, 1966)
• † Trichosirius (Miplioderma) finlayi Laws, 1935
• † Trichosirius (Miplioderma) mangawera (Laws, 1940)
• † Trichosirius (Miplioderma) reticulatus (Suter, 1917)
• † Trichosirius (Miplioderma) waihuanus (Marwick, 1965)

References

1. Finlay H. J. (1926). Trans. N. Zealand Inst. 57: 395.
2. Rosenberg, G. (2012). Trichosirius. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=598664 on 2012-05-31

Further reading

• Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
• Finlay H.J. 1926. A further commentary on New Zealand molluscan systematics. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, 57: 320-485.