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''Tectarius'' is a
genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...
of sea snails,
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gastropod
mollusk Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000  extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is es ...
s in the
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Littorinidae The Littorinidae are a taxonomic family of over 200 species of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha, commonly known as periwinkles and found worldwide. Names In English-speaking countries, gastropod molluscs f ...
, the winkles or periwinkles.


Species

Species within the genus ''Tectarius'' include: * '' Tectarius antonii'' (Philippi, 1846) * '' Tectarius coronatus'' Valenciennes, 1833 * '' Tectarius cumingii'' (Philippi, 1846) * '' Tectarius grandinatus'' (Gmelin, 1791) * '' Tectarius niuensis'' Reid & Geller, 1997 * '' Tectarius pagodus'' (Linnaeus, 1758) * '' Tectarius rusticus'' (Philippi, 1846) * '' Tectarius spinulosus'' (Philippi, 1847) * '' Tectarius striatus'' (King & Broderip, 1832) * '' Tectarius tectumpersicum'' (Linnaeus, 1758) * '' Tectarius viviparus'' (Rosewater, 1982) ;Species brought into synonymy: * ''Tectarius bullatus'' (Martyn, 1784): synonym of '' Tectarius grandinatus'' (Gmelin, 1791) * ''Tectarius feejeensis'' (Reeve, 1857): synonym of '' Echinolittorina feejeensis'' (Reeve, 1857) * ''Tectarius granosus'' (Philippi, 1845): synonym of '' Echinolittorina granosa'' (Philippi, 1845) * ''Tectarius miliaris'' (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832): synonym of '' Echinolittorina miliaris'' (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) * ''Tectarius montrouzieri'' P. Fischer, 1878: synonym of '' Perrinia angulifera'' (A. Adams, 1853) * ''Tectarius muricatus'' (Linnaeus, 1758): synonym of '' Cenchritis muricatus'' (Linnaeus, 1758) Subgenus ''Tectarius (Echininus)'' represented as '' Echininus'' Clench & Abbott, 1942 (alternate representation)


References


Further reading

* Bandel, K. & D. Kadolsky (1982). ''Western Atlantic Species of Nodolittorina (Gastropda: Prosobranchia): comparative morphology and its functional, ecological, phylogenetic and taxonomic implications''. Veliger 25 (1): 1-42. * Reid D.G. (1989). ''Systematic revision of the Recent species of Peasiella Nevill, 1885 (Gastropoda: Littorinidae), with notes on the fossil species.'' The Nautilus 103(2): 43-69 * Reid D.G. & Geller J.B. (1997).'' A new ovoviviparious species of Tectarius (Gastropoda: Littorinidae) from Niue, South Pacific, with a molecular phylogeny of the genus''. Journal of Molluscan Studies 63:207-233


External links

* Littorinidae {{Littorinidae-stub