Cochliolepis
Sign in to saveCochliolepis is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Tornidae.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderLittorinimorpha
- FamilyTornidae
Habitatmarine
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 165
- Family
- Tornidae
- Collections
- RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, UF
- Recorded in
- Turkey, United States
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Cochliolepis is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Tornidae.
==Taxonomy== Rolán & Rubio (2002: 46) hold Discopsis as a valid genus, distinct from Cochliolepis Stimpson, 1858, on the grounds that the latter belongs in the family Vitrinellidae and the former in Tornidae. This should be reevaluated in the perspective that both families are considered synonyms. Adam & Knudsen (1969) may have been right in placing the West African species in Cochliolepis.
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