Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Littorinimorpha > Superfamily Vermetoidea > Family Vermetidae

Petaloconchus Lea, 1843

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Thylacodus*	Mörch, 1860	synonym

Children

Petaloconchus glomeratus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Petaloconchus laurae Scuderi, 2012

Literature

original description	Lea, H.C. (1843b) Descriptions of Some New Fossil Shells, from the Tertiary of Petersburg, Virginia. H.C. Lea, Philadelphia, 12 pp.
basis of record	Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180-213
additional source	Bieler, R. & R. E. Petit, 2011, Catalogue of Recent and fossil “worm-snail” taxa of the families Vermetidae, Siliquariidae, and Turritellidae (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda). Zootaxa, 2948, 1-103.
additional source	Rolán E., 2005. Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda.

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Citation

Bieler, R.; Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2014). Petaloconchus Lea, 1843. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138650