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Trochinae
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Trochinae

The Trochidae, common name top-snails or top-shells, are a family of various sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subclass Vetigastropoda. This family is commonly known as the top-snails because in many species the shell resembles a toy spinning top.

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10 branches of this subfamily, most-observed first

Clanculus

genusClanculus

Trochus

genusTrochus

Coelotrochus

genusCoelotrochus

Cantharidella

genusCantharidella

Eurytrochus

genusEurytrochus

Notogibbula

genusNotogibbula

Cratidentium

genusCratidentium

Rubritrochus

genusRubritrochus

Infundibulum

genusInfundibulum

Pulchrastele

genusPulchrastele

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 886400.