Trochia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]
| Trochia | |
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| Trochia cingulata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Subfamily: | Ocenebrinae |
| Genus: | Trochia Swainson, 1840 |
| Type species | |
| Buccinum trochlea Bruguière, 1789 | |
Description
editThe whorls are separated by a deep groove. The inner lip is thickened, convex and striated. The aperture shows a very short siphonal canal. [2]
Species
editSpecies within the genus Trochia include:
- Trochia cingulata (Linnaeus, 1771)[3]
References
edit- ^ a b Trochia Swainson, 1840. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 2 January 2011.
- ^ Adams, H. & Adams, A. (1853-1858). The genera of Recent Mollusca; arranged according to their organization. London, van Voorst. Vol. 1: xl + 484 pp.; vol. 2: 661 pp.; vol. 3: 138 pls
- ^ Trochia cingulata (Linnaeus, 1771). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
External links
edit- Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology; or the natural classification of shells and shell-fish. Longman, London, viii + 419 pp
- Barco, A.; Herbert, G.; Houart, R.; Fassio, G. & Oliverio, M. (2017). A molecular phylogenetic framework for the subfamily Ocenebrinae (Gastropoda, Muricidae). Zoologica Scripta. 46 (3): 322-335
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