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Species

Species within the genus ''Africotriton'' include: * '' Africotriton adelphum'' Bouchet & Petit, 2002 * '' Africotriton carinapex'' Beu & Maxwell, 1987 * '' Africotriton crebriliratus'' (G.B. Sowerby III, 1903) * '' Africotriton fictilis'' (Hinds, 1844a) * '' Africotriton kilburni'' Beu & Maxwell, 1987 * '' Africotriton multinodulatus'' 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 {{Cancellariidae-stub