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Prothalotia is a genus

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

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 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

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 Prothalotia include:

Prothalotia boninensis
Prothalotia boninensis
Prothalotia boninensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails....

Okutani, 2001

The Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database also includes the following species with names in current use :

Prothalotia baudini (Fischer, 1878)
Prothalotia chlorites (Philippi, 1846)
Prothalotia flindersi (Fischer, 1878)
Prothalotia lehmanni (Menke, 1843)
Prothalotia lesueuri Fischer, 1880
Prothalotia porteri (Iredale, 1940)
Prothalotia pulcherrimus (Wood, 1828)
Prothalotia pyrgos Philippi, 1849
Prothalotia serpentina (Quoy in Kiener, 1859)
Prothalotia strigata (Adams, 1853)
Prothalotia suturalis (Adams, 1853)

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