Vanitrochus

Vanitrochus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[1]

Vanitrochus
Vanitrochus tragema
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Trochidae
Genus:	Vanitrochus Iredale, 1929
Type species
Solariella tragema Melvill & Standen, 1896
Synonyms
Minolia (Conotrochus) Pilsbry, 1889

Distribution

This marine genus occurs in the Gulf of Oman, Persian Gulf; in the Indian Ocean off Pakistan, Sri Lanka; in the Pacific Ocean off the Loyalty Islands, Tuvalu, New Caledonia and off Australia (Queensland)

Species

Species within the genus Vanitrochus include:

• Vanitrochus geertsi Poppe, Tagaro & Dekker, 2006[2]
• Vanitrochus semiustus (Fischer, 1879)
• Vanitrochus tragema (Melvill & Standen, 1896)

Species brought into synonymy

• Vanitrochus holdsworthiana Nevill, G. & H. Nevill, 1871: synonym of Pseudominolia musiva (Gould, A.A., 1861)

References

1. Vanitrochus . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 December 2012.
2. Vanitrochus geertsi Poppe, Tagaro & Dekker, 2006. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 1 May 2010.

• Pilsbry, 1889 [Manual of conchology, ser. 1, 11: 197; Invalid: Junior homonym of Conotrochus Schröter, 1863 [Cnidaria];
• Iredale, 1929 [Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 9(3): 272; Used as a substitute name for Conotrochus Pilsbry, 1889, non Schröter, 1863 [Cnidaria], but Solariella tragema Melvill & Standen, 1896 was not a species originally included in Conotrochus.]
• Wilson, B., 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Odyssey Publishing, Kallaroo, WA