Mikadotrochus Explained

Mikadotrochus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pleurotomariidae, the slit snails.

Species

Species within the genus Mikadotrochus include:

• Mikadotrochus beyrichii (Hilgendorf, 1877)
• Mikadotrochus gotoi (Anseeuw, 1990)
• Mikadotrochus hirasei hirasei (Pilsbry, 1903)
  • Mikadotrochus hirasei yamamotoi (A. Yamamoto, 1993), Species inquirenda
• Mikadotrochus mikadotrochus Pilsbry
• Mikadotrochus salmianus (Rolle, 1887)
• Mikadotrochus nantoensisLin，1975:^[1]

Species brought into synonymy :

• Mikadotrochus amabilis Bayer, 1963: synonym of Perotrochus amabilis (Bayer, 1963)
• Mikadotrochus anseeuwi Kanazawa & Y. Goto, 1991: synonym of Perotrochus anseeuwi Kanazawa & Y. Goto, 1991
• Mikadotrochus caledonicus (Bouchet & Métivier, 1982): synonym of Perotrochus caledonicus Bouchet & Métivier, 1982
• Mikadotrochus deforgesi B. Métivier, 1990: synonym of Perotrochus deforgesi Métivier, 1990
• Mikadotrochus oishii T. Shikama, 1973: synonym of Perotrochus oishii (Shikama, 1973)
• Mikadotrochus schmalzi T. Shikama, 1961: synonym of Mikadotrochus salmianus (Rolle, 1899)

Further reading

• Lindholm, W. A. (1927). On Pleurotomaria beyrichi Hilgendorf (Gastropoda) in the collection of Zoological Museum of the Academy of Science, with a note about the genus Pleurotomaria s. lat. Doklady Akademii nauk SSSR. 24: 409–414.
• Williams, S.T., Karube, S. & Ozawa, T. (2008) Molecular systematics of Vetigastropoda: Trochidae, Turbinidae and Trochoidea redefined. Zoologica Scripta 37, 483–506

Notes and References

1. Miocene Pleurotomariidae from Nantou Prefecture, Central Taiwan