Thalassocyon | |
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Thalassocyon wareni | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Superfamily: | Tonnoidea |
Family: | Thalassocyonidae |
Genus: | Thalassocyon Barnard, 1960 |
Type species | |
Thalassocyon bonus Barnard, 1960 |
Thalassocyon is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Thalassocyonidae.
Riedel (1995) elevated this genus to a family level (Thalassocyonidae), a vision not supported in Verhaeghe & Poppe (2000), nor in Bouchet, Rocroi et al. (2005)
This genus is found from South Africa to the Kermadec Islands and the North Island of New Zealand.
Taxon identifiers | |
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Thalassocyon |