Calthalotia
Encyclopedia
Calthalotia is an Australian genus
of sea snail
s, marine
gastropod molluscs in the family
Trochidae
, the top shells.
Species mentioned in
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 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
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
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 shells.
Species
Species with names in current use within the genus Calthalotia include:- Calthalotia arruensis (Watson, 1880)
- Calthalotia modesta (Thiele, 1930)
Species mentioned in
- Calthalotia baudini (Fischer, 1878)
- Calthalotia comtessi (Iredale, 1931 (synonym : Prothalotia comtessi)
- Calthalotia indistincta (Wood, 1828) (synonyms : Odontotrochus indistinctus; Thalotia marginata)
- Calthalotia mundula (Adams & Angas, 1864)
- Calthalotia strigata (Adams, 1853)