''Africotriton'' is a
genus of
sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...
s, marine
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusks in the
family Cancellariidae
Cancellariidae, common name the nutmeg snails or nutmeg shells, are a family of small to medium-large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Neogastropoda. Some of the shells of the species in this family resemble a nutmeg seed.
Di ...
, the nutmeg snails.
Species
Species within the genus ''Africotriton'' include:
* ''
Africotriton adelphum
''Africotriton adelphum'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cancellariidae
Cancellariidae, common name the nutmeg snails or nutmeg shells, are a family of small to medium-large sea snails, marine gastropo ...
'' Bouchet & Petit, 2002
* ''
Africotriton carinapex
''Africotriton carinapex'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae
Cancellariidae, common name the nutmeg snails or nutmeg shells, are a family of small to medium-large sea snails, marine gastro ...
'' Beu & Maxwell, 1987
* ''
Africotriton crebriliratus
''Africotriton crebriliratus'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae
Cancellariidae, common name the nutmeg snails or nutmeg shells, are a family of small to medium-large sea snails, marine ga ...
'' (G.B. Sowerby III, 1903)
* ''
Africotriton fictilis
''Africotriton fictilis'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cancellariidae
Cancellariidae, common name the nutmeg snails or nutmeg shells, are a family of small to medium-large sea snails, marine gastropo ...
'' (Hinds, 1844a)
* ''
Africotriton kilburni
''Africotriton kilburni'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae
Cancellariidae, common name the nutmeg snails or nutmeg shells, are a family of small to medium-large sea snails, marine gastrop ...
'' Beu & Maxwell, 1987
* ''
Africotriton multinodulatus
''Africotriton multinodulatus'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae
Cancellariidae, common name the nutmeg snails or nutmeg shells, are a family of small to medium-large sea snails, marine g ...
'' Beu & Maxwell, 1987
* ''
Africotriton petiti'' Beu & Maxwell, 1987
References
* 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
* Hemmen J. (2007). ''Recent Cancellariidae''. Wiesbaden, 428pp
Cancellariidae
Gastropod genera
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