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Acremodonta

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Genus of gastropods

Acremodonta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Family: Ataphridae
Genus: Acremodonta
B. A. Marshall, 1983
Type species
Thoristella crassicosta
Powell, 1937

Acremodonta is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Ataphridae.

The radula of species in this genus have very long and narrow teeth and dendritic cusps that are repeatedly divided.

Species

Species within the genus Acremodonta include:

References

  1. Marshall 1983 Record natn. Mus. N.Z. 2 (10): 127.
  2. Trochaclis. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 21 June 2012.
  3. Robert Robertson, The Edible West Indian "Whelk" Cittarium pica (Gastropoda: Trochidae): Natural History with New Observations, Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol. 153, Dec., 2003
Taxon identifiers
Acremodonta


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