Africotriton

Africotriton
Shell of Africotriton adelphum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Volutoidea
Family:	Cancellariidae
Subfamily:	Plesiotritoninae
Genus:	Africotriton Beu & Marshall, 1987
Type species
Epidromus crebriliratus G.B. Sowerby III, 1903
Species
See text

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

Species

Species within the genus Africotriton include:

• Africotriton adelphum Bouchet & Petit, 2002[2]
• Africotriton carinapex Beu & Maxwell, 1987[3]
• Africotriton crebriliratus (G.B. Sowerby III, 1903)[4]
• Africotriton fictilis (Hinds, 1844a)[5]
• Africotriton kilburni Beu & Maxwell, 1987[6]
• Africotriton multinodulatus Beu & Maxwell, 1987[7]
• Africotriton petiti Beu & Maxwell, 1987[8]

References

1. Africotriton Beu & Marshall, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 March 2011.
2. Africotriton adelphum Bouchet & Petit, 2002. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 April 2010.
3. Africotriton carinapex Beu & Maxwell, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 April 2010.
4. Africotriton crebriliratus (G.B. Sowerby III, 1903). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 April 2010.
5. Africotriton fictilis (Hinds, 1844a). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 April 2010.
6. Africotriton kilburni Beu & Maxwell, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 April 2010.
7. Africotriton multinodulatus Beu & Maxwell, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 April 2010.
8. Africotriton petiti Beu & Maxwell, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 April 2010.

• Beu A.G. & Maxwell P.A. (1987) A revision of the fossil and living gastropods related to Plesiotriton Fischer, 1884 (Family Cancellariidae, Subfamily Plesiotritoninae n. subfam.). With an appendix: Genera of Buccinidae Pisaniinae related to Colubraria Schumacher, 1817. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 54:1-140
• Hemmen J. (2007). Recent Cancellariidae. Wiesbaden, 428pp