Tropaeas
| Tropaeas | |
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| Apertural view of a shell of Tropaeas teres | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata |
| Superfamily: | Pyramidelloidea |
| Family: | Pyramidellidae |
| Genus: | Tropaeas Dall & Bartsch, 1904 |
| Type species | |
| Pyramidella subulata A. Adams, 1853 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Tropaeas is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.[1]
General description
The surface of the shell is marked by strong axial ribs. The intercostal spaces are spirally pitted. The early teleoconch whorls are sculptured differently from the later ones. The shell is umbilicated and contains two columellar folds.[2]
Species
- Tropaeas castaneus (A. Adams, 1863)
- Tropaeas crassicostata (Sowerby III, 1901)
- Tropaeas gracilis (A. Adams, 1854)
- Tropaeas gradatula (Melvill, J.C. & R. Standen, 1897)
- Tropaeas livida (Sowerby III, 1901)
- Tropaeas natalensis E. A. Smith, 1906
- Tropaeas subulata (A. Adams, 1853)
- Tropaeas teres (A. Adams, 1861)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Tropaeas fortiplicata Nomura, 1936: synonym of Siogamaia fortiplicata (Nomura, 1936)
The Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database also includes the following species:[3]
- Tropaeas badia (A. Adams, 1863)
- Tropaeas brunneomaculata (Melvill, 1897)
- Tropaeas contracta (Saurin, 1959)
- Tropaeas dubia (Schepman, 1909)
- Tropaeas enelata (Melvill, 1910)
- Tropaeas hadwigis Thiele, 1925
- Tropaeas halaibensis Sturany, 1903
- Tropaeas isolda Thiele, 1925
- Tropaeas lanassae Hornung & Mermod, 1924
- Tropaeas latonae Hornung & Mermod, 1924
- Tropaeas luteomaculosa (Nomura, 1938)
- Tropaeas secunda (Saurin, 1959)
- Tropaeas strigatula (A. Adams, 1863)
- Tropaeas strigillata (A.Adams, 1862)
- Tropaeas stylifera Thiele, 1925
- Tropaeas subcarnea (Schepman, 1909)
- Tropaeas subglabra (Odhner, 1919)
References
- 1 2 Bouchet, P. (2010). Tropaeas Dall & Bartsch, 1904. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=545285 on 2011-10-26
- ↑ Dall & Bartsch (1909), A Monograph of West American Pyramidellid Mollusks, United States National Museum, bulletin 68
- ↑ OBIS: Topaeas Dall& Bartsch, 1904
External links
| External identifiers for Tropaeas | |
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| WoRMS | 545285 |
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