Teretriphora
Encyclopedia
Teretriphora, is a genus
of small marine
gastropod mollusks in the family
Triphoridae
.
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 small marine
Marine (ocean)
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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...
Triphoridae
Triphoridae
Triphoridae are a family of very small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the informal group Ptenoglossa in the clade Hypsogastropoda. Almost all the species in this family are micromollusks.-Shell description:...
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Species
Species within the genus Teretriphora include:- Teretriphora distorta (Laseron, 1958)
- Teretriphora gemmegens (Verco, 1909)
- Teretriphora huttoniTeretriphora huttoniTeretriphora huttoni is a species of small deepwater sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Triphoridae.-References:* Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1...
SuterHenry SuterHenry Suter was a New Zealand zoologist, naturalist, palaeontologist, and malacologist.- Biography :...
, 1908 - Teretriphora novapostrema (Verco, 1910)
- Teretriphora ponderorum Marshall, 1983
- Teretriphora spica (Verco, J.C., 1909)