Triptychus | |
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Drawing of a shell of Triptychus niveus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Subcohort: | Panpulmonata |
Superfamily: | Pyramidelloidea |
Family: | Pyramidellidae |
Genus: |
Triptychus Mörch, 1875 [1] |
Type species | |
Triptychus nivea Mörch, 1875 | |
Synonyms [2] | |
Pyramidella (Triptychus) Mörch, 1875 |
Triptychus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies. [2]
The subulate shell is spirally paucilirate. The aperture is lirate within, subsinuated in front. The columella is triplicate. [3]
Species within the genus Triptychus include: [2]