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Oxystele

A genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Trochidae, the top snails.

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Oxystele

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Genetic analysis supports treating Oxystele as its own genus rather than a subgenus of Diloma.[1] Marine gastropods belonging to the family Trochidae are classified under the genus Oxystele, which was established by R. A. Philippi in 1847.[1][2][3] Genetic evidence supports treating Oxystele as a distinct genus rather than a subgenus of Diloma.[1]

Scientific classification

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumMollusca
  3. ClassGastropoda
  4. SubclassVetigastropoda
  5. OrderTrochida
  6. FamilyTrochidae
  7. GenusOxystele

Named by Philippi, 1847

Sources: Wikipedia taxobox: Oxystele (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Quick Facts

Type species
Trochus merula

Facts from the source article.

Biology and range

GBIF holds 2,896 occurrence records for this taxon.[3] The genus was established by R. A. Philippi in 1847.[2][3] Oxystele belongs to the order Trochida and class Gastropoda.[2][3] According to Tryon (1889), the shell of Oxystele species is depressed-conical and exhibits either dark or variegated coloration.[4]

The same source describes the aperture as being both large and oblique.[4]

What the specialist sources record

The World Register of Marine Species lists Oxystele as an accepted genus in the family Trochidae.[2] GBIF also accepts the genus Oxystele R.A.Philippi, 1847.[3] Several species names have been brought into synonymy, including Oxystele capensis as a synonym of Oxystele sinensis.[5] Oxystele impervius is a synonym of Oxystele variegata according to MolluscaBase.[5]

Oxystele inflata is a synonym of Oxystele sinensis.[5] Oxystele sagittifera is a synonym of Oxystele variegata.[5] Oxystele tigrinus is a synonym of Oxystele tigrina.[5]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Oxystele" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: ; Heller, "Detection of two coexisting species of Oxystele (Gastropoda: Trochidae) by morphological and electrophoretic analyses", Journal of Zoology, 1991, p. 395–418; Donald, "The phylogeny and taxonomy of austral monodontine topshells (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochidae), inferred from DNA sequences", Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 2005, p. 474–483 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. World Register of Marine Species, Oxystele (AphiaID 204998). CC BY 4.0. marinespecies.org
  3. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence index, Oxystele (taxon key 2292748). CC BY 4.0 (backbone); counts are facts. gbif.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Oxystele" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Oxystele" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Oxystele R. A. Philippi, 1847. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphi (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Oxystele (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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