Larochea

Taxobox
name = "Larochea"


regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Caenogastropoda
ordo = Sorbeoconcha
subordo = Hypsogastropoda
infraordo = Littorinimorpha
superfamilia = Velutinoidea
familia = Velutinidae
subfamilia = Lamellariinae
genus = "Larochea"
genus_authority = Finlay, 1927
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Larochea" is a genus of minute marine gastropod molluscs in the family Velutinidae.

The shells are extremely minute, , and thin. As the animals have not been observed, the relationship of the genus is problematic.

pecies within the genus "Larochea"

* "Larochea miranda" Finlay, 1927
* "Larochea scitula" Marshall, 1993
* "Larochea secunda" Powell, 1937

References

* Powell A. W. B., "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
* [http://mollus.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/59/3/285 oxfordjournals.org]