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Perotrochus
Genus of gastropods / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Perotrochus is a genus of large sea snails with gills and an operculum, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pleurotomariidae, the slit snails, (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
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Perotrochus | |
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Apertural view of Perotrochus atlanticus | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
Order: | Pleurotomariida |
Superfamily: | Pleurotomarioidea |
Family: | Pleurotomariidae |
Genus: | Perotrochus Fischer, 1885[1] |
Type species | |
Perotrochus quoyana Fischer & Bernardi, 1856 | |
Synonyms | |
Pleurotomaria (Perotrochus) Fischer 1885 |
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