Xenophora

Taxobox
name = "Xenophora"
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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Caenogastropoda
ordo = Sorbeoconcha
subordo = Hypsogastropoda
infraorodo = Littorinimorpha
superfamilia = Xenophoroidea
familia = Xenophoridae
genus = "Xenophora"
genus_authority = Fischer von Waldheim, 1807
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Xenophora", common name carrier shells, is a genus of medium sized to large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Xenophoridae, the carrier snails or carrier shells.

The genus name is from the ancient Greek, and means "bearing foreigners". This is reference to the fact that most species of "Xenophora" cement other shells or small pebbles onto the rim of their shell at regular intervals. "Xenophora" is sometimes humorously referred to as a shell-collecting shell.

pecies within the genus "Xenophora"

* "Xenophora caribaea" Petit de la Saussaye, 1857 - Caribbean carriersnail
* "Xenophora chinensis" Philippi, 1841)
* "Xenophora conchyliophora" (Born, 1780) - American carriersnail
* "Xenophora longleyi" Bartsch, 1931 - shingled carriersnail
* "Xenophora solarioides" (Reeve, 1845)
* "Xenophora neozelanica" Suter, 1908 - New Zealand carriershell

References

* Powell A. W. B., "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1