''Trogloconcha'' is a
genus
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of
sea snail
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s, marine
gastropod
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mollusk
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s in the
family
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Larocheidae
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.
Species
Species within the genus ''Trogloconcha'' include:
* ''
Trogloconcha christinae'' Geiger, 2003
* ''
Trogloconcha lamellinodosa''
Geiger, 2012
* ''
Trogloconcha lozoueti'' Geiger, 2008
* † ''
Trogloconcha marshalli''
(Lozouet, 1998)
* ''
Trogloconcha ohashii'' Kase & Kano, 2002
* ''
Trogloconcha tesselata'' Kase & Kano, 2002
* ''
Trogloconcha yoidanyi''
Fr. Giusti, Pagli & Micali, 2018
References
* Geiger D.L. (2003) ''Phylogenetic assessment of characters proposed for the generic classification of Recent Scissurellidae (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) with a description of one new genus and six new species from Easter Island and Australia.'' Molluscan Research 23: 21-83.
* Geiger D.L. & Jansen P. (2004). ''New species of Australian Scissurellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) with remarks on Australian and Indo-Malayan species.'' Zootaxa 714:1-72.
* Geiger, D.L. (2012). Monograph of the little slit shells. Volume 1. Introduction, Scissurellidae. pp. 1-728. Volume 2. Anatomidae, Larocheidae, Depressizonidae, Sutilizonidae, Temnocinclidae. pp. 729-1291. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Monographs. Number 7.
External links
Kase T. & Kano Y. (2002). Trogloconcha, a new genus of larocheine Scissurellidae (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) from tropical Indo-Pacific submarine caves. The Veliger. 45(1): 25-32
Larocheidae
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