Prothalotia lehmanni

Prothalotia lehmanni
Drawing of a shell of Prothalotia lehmanni
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Family:	Trochidae
Subfamily:	Cantharidinae
Genus:	Prothalotia
Species:	P. lehmanni
Binomial name
Prothalotia lehmanni (Menke, 1843) [1]
Synonyms
Cantharidus lehmanni(Menke, 1843) Notogibbula sulcosaA. Adams, 1851 Phasianella elegansLamarck, J.B. 1822 Trochus lehmanniMenke, 1843 (original combination) Trochus nitensKiener, L.C. 1859

Prothalotia lehmanni, common name Lehmann's top shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails. ^{[2] [3]}

Description

The Prothalotia lehmanni shares the corneous operculum shell specific to the Trochidae family, and has the common nacreous interior. On the small side, Lehmann's top snail ranges from 10mm to 17mm in size. ^[4]

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off South Australia and Western Australia.

References

1. Menke, C.T. 1843. Molluscorum Novae Hollandiae Specimen in Libraria Aulica Hahniana. Hannover : Hahniana 46 pp.
2. Bouchet, P. (2012). Prothalotia lehmanni (Menke, 1843). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=573217 on 2012-11-23
3. Hickman C.S. (2005) Seagrass fauna of the temperate southern coast of Australia I: The cantharidine trochid gastropods. In: F.E. Wells, D.I. Walker & G.A. Kendrick (eds), The marine flora and fauna of Esperance, Western Australia: 199-220. Western Australian Museum, Perth.
4. Britannica, T. Editors of Encyclopedia (2010). top shell. Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/animal/top-shell Retrieved 8 September 2022

• Lamarck, J.B. 1822. Histoire naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 7 711 pp.
• Cotton, B.C. 1959. South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia. Adelaide : South Australian Government Printer 449 pp. [119] (118, fig. 57 as Prothalotia ramburi (Crosse) 119, fig. 58 as Prothalotia lesueuri (Fischer); 120, fig. 59
• Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine Molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp.

External links

• Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
• GenBank (5 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
• USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
• World Register of Marine Species
• "Prothalotia lehmanni". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.