Trimusculus

Trimusculus
Dorsal view of a shell of Trimusculus reticulatus (Sowerby, 1835)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Ellobiida
Superfamily: Trimusculoidea
J. Q. Burch, 1945 (1840)
Family: Trimusculidae
J. Q. Burch, 1945 (1840)
Genus: Trimusculus
F. C. Schmidt, 1818[1]
Species

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Synonyms[2]

Synonym of Trimusculidae:

  • Gadiniidae Gray, 1840

Synonyms of Trimusculus:

  • Clypeus Scacchi, 1833 (junior homonym of Clypeus Leske, 1778 (Echinoidea) )
  • Gadinalea Iredale, 1940[3]
  • Gadinia Gray, 1824[4]
  • Gadinia (Rowellia) Carpenter, 1864
  • Mouretia G. B. Sowerby I, 1835
  • Rowellia Carpenter, 1864
Apertural view of shell of Trimusculus reticulatus
Profile view of shell of Trimusculus reticulatus

Trimusculus is a genus of medium-sized air-breathing sea snails or false limpets, marine pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Trimusculidae.

Trimusculus is the only genus in the family Trimusculidae.[5] Trimusculidae, the button snails, is the only family in the superfamily Trimusculoidea,[6] a superfamily of false limpets. These are marine pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the clade Eupulmonata.[6]

Trimusculids are not very closely related to the siphonariids, another family of marine air-breathing false-limpets. The trimusculids are in the clade Eupulmonata, and are quite closely related to air-breathing land snails.

  1. ^ Schmidt F. C. (1818). Vers. Einth. Conch. [teste Marschall 1873, Nomen. zool., 143]; Moeller (1832). Isis (Oken), 1832: 132.
  2. ^ WoRMS (2010). Trimusculus F.C. Schmidt, 1818. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138565 on 2011-01-09
  3. ^ Iredale T. (1940). Aust. Zool. 9: 437.
  4. ^ Gray (1824). Phil. Mag. 63(312): 275.
  5. ^ (in Czech) de Bruyne R. H. (2004). Encyklopedie ulit a lastur. Rebo Productions, 336 pp., ISBN 80-7234-288-6, page 227.
  6. ^ a b Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.