Aclophoropsis

Aclophoropsis
Two shells of Aclophoropsis festiva
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
Informal group Ptenoglossa
Superfamily: Triphoroidea
Family: Triphoridae
Subfamily: Triphorinae
Genus: Aclophoropsis
Marshall, 1983
Type species
Aclophoropsis festiva Adams, A., 1851
Species

See text.

Aclophoropsis is a genus of minute sea snails with left-handed shell-coiling, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Triphoridae.

Description

These small snails have left-handed shells (adult size from 6 – 12 mm) with very high spires.

Distribution

These small sea snails are found in Australia (Victoria, New South Wales), Tasmania, and French Polynesia

Species

Species within the genus Aclphoropsis are as follows:[1]

References

  1. ↑ OBIS : Aclophoropsis
  2. ↑ Jean Tröndlé and Michel Boutet, Inventory of Marine Molluscs of French Polynesia, Atoll Research Bulletin, no. 570, National Museum of National History, Washington


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