Priotrochus
Encyclopedia
Priotrochus is a genus
of sea snail
s, marine gastropod mollusks in the family
Trochidae
, the top snails.
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
Sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for those snails that normally live in saltwater, marine gastropod molluscs....
s, marine gastropod mollusks 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 snails.
Species
Species within the genus Priotrochus include:- Priotrochus goudoti (Fischer, 1878)
- Priotrochus iris Herbert, 1988
- Priotrochus obscurusPriotrochus obscurusPriotrochus obscurus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.-Distribution:This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean along Madagascar, Mozambique, Tanzania and Durban, South Africa.-References:* Dautzenberg, Ph. ....
(W. Wood, 1828)