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

Petaloconchus H. C. 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. (1843). Description of some new fossil shells from the Tertiary of Virginia. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 3: 162-165 [Final publication: see H.C. Lea 1846].
basis of record	Bieler, R. & Petit, R. E. (2011). Catalogue of Recent and fossil “worm-snail” taxa of the families Vermetidae, Siliquariidae, and Turritellidae (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda). Zootaxa. 2948: 1-103.
additional source	Lea, H. C. (1843). Abstract of a paper read before the American Philosophical Society, May 29th, 1843, entitled "Descriptions of some new fossil shells, from the Tertiary of Petersburg, Virginia". H.C. Lea, Philadelphia. 12 pp. [Published before 18 October 1843. A separate and advanced publication of H.C. Lea 1846, with the same title].

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Petaloconchus H. C. Lea, 1843. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138650