Plesiothyreus

Plesiothyreus
Shell of Plesiothyreus cossmanni (lectotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Neritimorpha
Order: Cycloneritida
Family: Phenacolepadidae
Genus: Plesiothyreus
Cossmann, 1888[1]
Type species
† Capulus parmophoroides Cossmann, 1885
Synonyms
  • Cinnalepeta Iredale, 1929
  • Phenacolepas Pilsbry, 1891
  • Pileopsis (Scutellina)
  • Scutella Broderip, 1834 (Invalid: junior homonym of Scutella Lamarck, 1816 [Echinodermata]; Scutellina and Phenacolepas are replacement names)
  • Scutellina Gray, 1847 (Invalid: junior homonym of Scutellina Agassiz, 1841 [Echinodermata]; Phenacolepas is a replacement name)
  • Scutulina Cossmann, 1912

Plesiothyreus is a genus of very small sea snails or limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Phenacolepadinae of the family Phenacolepadidae.[2]

  1. ^ Cossmann (1888). Ann. Soc. malac. Belgique 23: 191.
  2. ^ Plesiothyreus. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 May 2010.