Tegula (genus)

Taxobox
name = Tegula

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image_width = 220px
image_caption = "Tegula pulligo"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
ordo = Archaeogastropoda
superfamilia = Trochacea
familia = Trochidae
genus = "Tegula"
genus_authority = Lesson, 1835
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Tegula" is a genus of small to medium-sized sea snails, or marine gastropod molluscs, in the family Trochidae. This genus, and many other genera in the family Trochidae, are commonly called "top snails" because of their shape, which is like an old-fashioned spinning top.

pecies within the genus "Tegula"

* "Tegula aureotincta" (Forbes, 1850) - gilded tegula
* "Tegula brunnea" Philippi, 1848 - brown tegula
* "Tegula corteziana" Mclean, 1970
* "Tegula eiseni" Jordan, 1936 - banded tegula, western banded tegula
* "Tegula excavata" (Lamarck, 1822) - green-base tegula
* "Tegula fasciata" (Born, 1778) - silky tegula
* "Tegula felipenis" Mclean, 1970
* "Tegula funebralis" (A. Adams, 1855) - black tegula
* "Tegula gallina" (Forbes, 1850) - speckled tegula
* "Tegula gruneri" (Philippi, 1849) - gem tegula
* "Tegula hotessieriana" (d'Orbigny, 1842) - Caribbean tegula
* "Tegula lividomaculata" (C. B. Adams, 1845) - West Indian tegula
* "Tegula maculostriata" (C. B. Adams)
* "Tegula mariana" Dall, 1919
* "Tegula montereyi" (Kiener, 1850) - Monterey tegula
* "Tegula patagonica" (d'Orbigny, 1840)
* "Tegula pellisserpentis" Wood, 1828
* "Tegula pulligo" (Gmelin, 1791) - dusky tegula
* "Tegula regina" Stearns, 1892 - queen tegula
* "Tegula rubroflammulata" (Koch, 1843)
* "Tegula verdispira" J. H. McLean, 1970
* "Tegula viridula" (Gmelin, 1791)

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