Trigonostoma

Trigonostoma
Apertural view of shell of Trigonostoma milleri Burch, 1949
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Cancellarioidea
Family: Cancellariidae
Genus: Trigonostoma
Blainville, 1825
Type species
Delphinula trigonostoma Lamarck, 1822
Synonyms[1]
  • Arizelostoma Iredale, 1936
  • Extractrix Korobkov, 1955
  • Ovilia Jousseaume, 1887
  • Trigona Perry, 1811 (Invalid: junior homonym of Trigona Jurine, 1807 [Hymenoptera])
  • Ventrilia Jousseaume, 1887

Trigonostoma is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.[1]

Trigonostoma is also the name given to a trematode genus in the family Aspidogastridae, that is actually a synonym of the genus Multicalyx Faust & Tang, 1936

Species

According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) the following species with valid names are included within the genus Trigonostoma :[1]

Subgenus Trigonostoma Blainville, 1825
  • Trigonostoma pellucida - Triangular Nutmeg
Species brought into synonymy
  • Trigonostoma campbelli Shasky, 1961: synonym of Axelella campbelli (Shasky, 1961)
  • Trigonostoma foveolata [sic]: synonym of Scalptia foveolata (G.B. Sowerby II, 1849)
  • Trigonostoma semidisjuncta [sic]: synonym of Trigonostoma semidisjunctum (Sowerby II, 1849)
  • Trigonostoma tuberculosa [sic]: synonym of Trigonostoma tuberculosum (Sowerby I, 1832)

References

  • Hemmen J. (2007). Recent Cancellariidae. Wiesbaden, 428pp.
  • Bouchet P. & Petit R.E. (2008). New species and new records of southwest Pacific Cancellariidae. The Nautilus 122(1): 1-18.


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