Thalassocyon

Thalassocyon
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha

Superfamily: Ficoidea
Family: Ficidae
Genus: Thalassocyon
Barnard, 1960[1]

Thalassocyon is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Ficidae, the fig shells.

Distribution

This genus is found from South Africa to the Kermadec Islands and the North Island of New Zealand.

Species

References

  1. Barnard (1960). J. Conch. Lond. 24: 440.

Further reading

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