Thalassocyon is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Thalassocyonidae.[2]
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| Thalassocyon wareni | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Tonnoidea |
| Family: | Thalassocyonidae |
| Genus: | Thalassocyon Barnard, 1960[1] |
| Type species | |
| Thalassocyon bonus Barnard, 1960
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Taxonomy
editRiedel (1995) elevated this genus to a family level (Thalassocyonidae), a vision not supported in Verhaeghe & Poppe (2000), nor in Bouchet, Rocroi et al. (2005) [2]
Distribution
editThis genus is found from South Africa to the Kermadec Islands and the North Island of New Zealand.
Species
edit- Thalassocyon bonus Barnard, 1960
- Thalassocyon tui Dell, 1967
- Thalassocyon wareni F. Riedel, 2000
References
edit- ^ Barnard (1960). J. Conch. Lond. 24: 440.
- ^ a b Thalassocyon Barnard, 1960. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 December 2018.
- Barnard K.H. (1960). New species of South African marine gastropods. Journal of Conchology. 24: 438–442.
- Verhaeghe, M. & Poppe, G.T. (2000) A Conchological Iconography 3: The family Ficidae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks
Further reading
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- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
- Beu A.G. (1969). The gastropod genus Thalassocyon Barnard, 1960. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 3(3): 445-452
- Royal Society of New Zealand