Pseudovertagus

Pseudovertagus
Five views of a shell of Pseudovertagus aluco
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily:	Cerithioidea
Family:	Cerithiidae
Genus:	Pseudovertagus Vignal, 1904
Synonyms[1]
Pseudovertagus (Pseudovertagus) Vignal, 1904

Pseudovertagus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cerithiidae.[1]

Species

Species within the genus Pseudovertagus include:

• Pseudovertagus aluco (Linnaeus, 1758)[2]
• Pseudovertagus clava (Gmelin, 1791)[3]
• Pseudovertagus elegans Bozzetti, 2006[4]
• Pseudovertagus nobilis (Reeve, 1855)[5]
• Pseudovertagus peroni Wilson, 1975[6]
• Pseudovertagus phylarchus (Iredale, 1929)[7]

Species brought into synonymy

• Pseudovertagus excelsior Iredale, 1930: synonym of Pseudovertagus phylarchus (Iredale, 1929)

References

1. Pseudovertagus Vignal, 1904. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 May 2012.
2. Pseudovertagus aluco (Linnaeus, 1758). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 May 2010.
3. Pseudovertagus clava (Gmelin, 1791). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 May 2010.
4. Pseudovertagus elegans Bozzetti, 2006. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 May 2010.
5. Pseudovertagus nobilis (Reeve, 1855). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 May 2010.
6. Pseudovertagus peroni Wilson, 1975. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 May 2010.
7. Pseudovertagus phylarchus (Iredale, 1929). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 May 2010.

• Houbrick R.S. (1978). The family Cerithiidae in the Indo-Pacific. Part 1: the genera Rhinoclavis, Pseudovertagus and Clavocerithium. Monographs of Marine Mollusca 1: 1-130