Thalassocyon

Thalassocyon
Thalassocyon wareni
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Tonnoidea
Family: Thalassocyonidae
Genus: Thalassocyon
Barnard, 1960[1]
Type species
Thalassocyon bonus
Barnard, 1960

Thalassocyon is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Thalassocyonidae.[2]

Taxonomy

Riedel (1995) elevated this genus to a family level (Thalassocyonidae), a vision not supported in Verhaeghe & Poppe (2000), nor in Bouchet, Rocroi et al. (2005) [2]

Distribution

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

Species

References

  1. ^ Barnard (1960). J. Conch. Lond. 24: 440.
  2. ^ a b Thalassocyon Barnard, 1960. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 December 2018.
  • Barnard K.H. (1960). New species of South African marine gastropods. Journal of Conchology. 24: 438–442.
  • Verhaeghe, M. & Poppe, G.T. (2000) A Conchological Iconography 3: The family Ficidae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks

Further reading

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  • Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
  • Beu A.G. (1969). The gastropod genus Thalassocyon Barnard, 1960. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 3(3): 445-452
  • Royal Society of New Zealand