Phasianotrochus
Encyclopedia
Phasianotrochus is a genus
of sea snail
s. They are marine
gastropod molluscs 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. They are 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 snails.
Species
According to the Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database, the following species with names in current use are included within the genus Phasianotrochus- Phasianotrochus apicinus (Menke, 1843)
- Phasianotrochus bellulus (Philippi, 1845)
- Phasianotrochus eximius (Perry, 1811)
- Phasianotrochus irisodontes (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
- Phasianotrochus rutilis (Adams, 1853)
- Phasianotrochus sericinus (Thiele, 1930)