Entemnotrochus | |
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A shell of Entemnotrochus rumphii | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
Order: | Pleurotomariida |
Superfamily: | Pleurotomarioidea |
Family: | Pleurotomariidae |
Genus: | Entemnotrochus Fischer, 1885 |
Type species | |
Pleurotomaria adansoniana Crosse & P. Fischer, 1861 | |
Synonyms | |
Pleurotomaria (Entemnotrochus) P. Fischer, 1885 |
Entemnotrochus is a genus of large to very large deepwater sea snails with gills and an operculum, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pleurotomariidae, the slit snails.[1]