Antisolarium

Taxobox
name = "Antisolarium"


image_caption =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Prosobranchia
ordo = Archaeogastropoda
superfamilia = Trochacea
familia = Trochidae
genus = "Antisolarium"
genus_authority = Finlay, 1927
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Antisolarium" is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Trochidae, the top shells.

The shells are small, depressed , with a wide, deep umbilicus, bordered by a crenulated ridge. The dorsal sculpture is of strong spiral ridges, most of which are beaded. The radula is of umbonid type, with chisel-shaped central and lateral teeth that are long and narrow.

Distribution

Species in this genus are endemic to New Zealand.

pecies within the genus "Antisolarium"

* "Antisolarium vixincisum" Marwick, 1929
* "Antisolarium egenum" (Gould, AA, 1849)

References

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