Africotriton is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Plesiotritoninae of the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.[1]

Africotriton
Shell of Africotriton adelphum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Volutoidea
Family: Cancellariidae
Subfamily: Plesiotritoninae
Genus: Africotriton
Beu & Marshall, 1987
Type species
Epidromus crebriliratus
G.B. Sowerby III, 1903
Species

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Species

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Species within the genus Africotriton include:

References

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  • Beu A.G. & Maxwell P.A. (1987) A revision of the fossil and living gastropods related to Plesiotriton Fischer, 1884 (Family Cancellariidae, Subfamily Plesiotritoninae n. subfam.). With an appendix: Genera of Buccinidae Pisaniinae related to Colubraria Schumacher, 1817. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 54:1-140
  • Hemmen J. (2007). Recent Cancellariidae. Wiesbaden, 428pp