Verticosta

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Verticosta
Verticosta migrans 001.jpg
Original image of a shell of Verticosta migrans
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Capulidae
Genus: Verticosta
S.-I Huang & M.-H. Lin, 2020
Type species
Trichotropis migrans
Dall, 1881

Verticosta is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks, in the family Capulidae. [1] [2]

Species

Species within the genus Verticosta include:

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References

  1. MolluscaBase (2020). MolluscaBase. Verticosta S.-I Huang & M.-H. Lin, 2020. Accessed at: http://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1397672 on 2020-01-07
  2. Huang S.-I [Shih-I] & Lin M.-H. [Ming-Hui]. (2020). Verticosta n. gen. from Taiwan, Philippine, Gulf of Oman and North Atlantic Ocean (Gastropoda, Capulidae). Bulletin of Malacology, Taiwan. 43: 13-24.