Africotriton Explained

Africotriton is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Plesiotritoninae of the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.

Species

Species within the genus Africotriton include:

• Africotriton adelphum Bouchet & Petit, 2002
• Africotriton carinapex Beu & Maxwell, 1987
• Africotriton crebriliratus (G.B. Sowerby III, 1903)
• Africotriton fictilis (Hinds, 1844a)
• Africotriton kilburni Beu & Maxwell, 1987
• Africotriton multinodulatus Beu & Maxwell, 1987
• Africotriton petiti Beu & Maxwell, 1987

References

• Beu A.G. & Maxwell P.A. (1987) A revision of the fossil and living gastropods related to Plesiotriton Fischer, 1884 (Family Cancellariidae, Subfamily Plesiotritoninae n. subfam.). With an appendix: Genera of Buccinidae Pisaniinae related to Colubraria Schumacher, 1817. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 54:1-140
• Hemmen J. (2007). Recent Cancellariidae. Wiesbaden, 428pp