Trichosirius

Taxobox
name = "Trichosirius"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Heterobranchia
| ordo = Littorinimorpha
superfamilia = Calyptraeoidea
familia = Capulidae
genus = "Trichosirius"
genus_authority = Finlay, 1927
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Trichosirius" is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Capulidae (previously Trichotropidae).

hell description

The shells are narrowly or broadly with a rapidly enlarged body whorl.

pecies within the genus "Trichosirius"

* "Trichosirius cavatocarinatus" (Laws, 1940)
* "Trichosirius inornatus" (Hutton, 1873)
* "Trichosirius octocarinatus" (Powell, 1931)

References

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