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Top Snails
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Top Snails

Trochidae

The Trochidae, common name top-snails or top-shells, are a taxonomic family of very small to large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Vetigastropoda (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi from 2005).

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13 branches of this family, most-observed first

Cantharidinae

subfamilyCantharidinae

Monodontinae

subfamilyMonodontinae

Trochinae

subfamilyTrochinae

Umboniinae

subfamilyUmboniinae

Chrysostomatinae

subfamilyChrysostomatinae

Stomatellinae

subfamilyStomatellinae

Fossarininae

subfamilyFossarininae

Alcyninae

subfamilyAlcyninae

Halistylinae

subfamilyHalistylinae

Kaiparathininae

subfamilyKaiparathininae

Carinotrochinae

subfamilyCarinotrochinae

Enida

genusEnida

Callumbonella

genusCallumbonella

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Recorded sightings

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In the old herbals & bestiaries

Top Snails in Georg Eberhard Rumphius — D'Amboinsche rariteitkamer (1705)

Georg Eberhard Rumphius — D'Amboinsche rariteitkamer (1705)

Georg Eberhard Rumphius · 1705 · p.157

Top Snails in Georg Wolfgang Knorr; Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch — Schnecken und Muscheln (1770)

Georg Wolfgang Knorr; Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch — Schnecken und Muscheln (1770)

Georg Wolfgang Knorr; Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch · 1770 · p.25

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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 53830.