Austrocochlea
Encyclopedia
Austrocochlea is a genus
of medium-sized sea snail
s, marine
gastropod molluscs in the family Trochidae
, the top snails, also known as top shells.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of medium-sized sea snail
Snail
Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
s, marine
Marine (ocean)
Marine is an umbrella term. As an adjective it is usually applicable to things relating to the sea or ocean, such as marine biology, marine ecology and marine geology...
gastropod molluscs in the family Trochidae
Trochidae
The Trochidae, common name top snails, are a taxonomic family of very small to large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Vetigastropoda ....
, the top snails, also known as top shells.
Species
Species within the genus Austrocochlea include:- Austrocochlea constricta, the southern ribbed top snail
- Austrocochlea porcata, the zebra top snail
- Austrocochlea rudis Gray, 1826