Thalassocyon

Taxobox
name = "Thalassocyon"


image_caption =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Caenogastropoda
ordo = Sorbeoconcha
subordo = Hypsogastropoda
infraordo = Littorinimorpha
cohort = Neogastropoda
superfamilia = Ficoidea
familia = Ficidae
genus = "Thalassocyon"
genus_authority = Barnard, 1960
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Thalassocyon" is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Ficidae, the fig shells.

Distribution

This genus is found from South Africa to the Kermadec Islands and the North Island of New Zealand.

pecies in the genus "Thalassocyon"

* "Thalassocyon bonus" Barnard, 1960
* "Thalassocyon tui" Dell, 1967

References

* Powell A. W. B., "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
* [http://www.rsnz.org/publish/nzjmfr/1969/38.pdf Royal Society of New Zealand]