Plesiothyreus
Encyclopedia
Plesiothyreus is a genus
of very small sea snail
s or limpet
s, marine
gastropod mollusks in the family
Phenacolepadidae
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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 very small sea snail
Sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for those snails that normally live in saltwater, marine gastropod molluscs....
s or limpet
Limpet
Limpet is a common name for a number of different kinds of saltwater and freshwater snails ; it is applied to those snails that have a simple shell which is more or less conical in shape, and either is not spirally coiled, or appears not to be coiled in the adult snails.The name limpet is most...
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...
Phenacolepadidae
Phenacolepadidae
Phenacolepadidae is a family of small sea snails or false limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Cycloneritimorpha ....
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Species
Species within the genus Plesiothyreus include:- Plesiothyreus arabica
- Plesiothyreus cosmani
- Plesiothyreus cytherae
- Plesiothyreus elongata
- Plesiothyreus galathea
- Plesiothyreus hamilleiPlesiothyreus hamilleiPlesiothyreus hamillei is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Phenacolepadidae....
(P. Fischer, 1857) - Plesiothyreus pararabica
- Plesiothyreus peelae
- Plesiothyreus rushiiPlesiothyreus rushiiPlesiothyreus rushii is a species of very small sea snail, a limpet, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Phenacolepadidae....
(Dall, 1889)