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genus

Prothalotia Thiele, 1930

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Trochida »  family Trochidae - top-shells »  subfamily Cantharidinae

Description

Type species: Trochus flindersi Fischer 1878. King George Sound, S.W.A.
Shell very narrowly perforate, conical, rather thick; whorls seven to eight, planulate, the first eroded, the succeeding whitish-ashen, radiated with narrow, close and flexuose blackish and violaceous lines; spirally cingulate; lirae six on the penultimate whorl; last whorl subangular, a little depressed above, dilated in the middle; base convex, ornamented with about eight lirae; aperture rhomboidal; lip simple; columella arcuate, truncate below.
Distribution: Southern Australia.
Remarks: The shell may be very narrowly or not perforate, when the umbilical area is marked by a depression. The smooth columella distinguishes the genus from Thalotia and Odontotrochus while the lack of the distinctive tooth separates it from Phasianotrochus and Cantharidus.
Cotton, B.C., 1959. South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda.
Author: Jan Delsing

Included taxa

Number of records: 8

species Prothalotia chlorites (Philippi, 1848)
species Prothalotia flindersi (Fischer, 1878)

Prothalotia flindersi

species Prothalotia lehmanni (Menke, 1843) - Lehmann's Top Shell

Prothalotia lehmanni

species Prothalotia lesueuri (Fischer, 1877) - Elegant Top Shell

Prothalotia lesueuri

species Prothalotia porteri (Iredale, 1940)
species Prothalotia pulcherrimus (Wood, 1828)

Prothalotia pulcherrimus

species Prothalotia ramburi (Crosse, 1843) - Crimson Top Shell

Prothalotia ramburi

species Prothalotia suturalis (A. Adams, 1853)

Links and literature

EN Australian Faunal Directory [7e56d6ff-2ed4-454a-b750-6a65c74f281d]

ABRS (2009-2019): Australian Faunal Directory [https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/home], Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra [as Prothalotia Thiele, 1930]
Data retrieved on: 15 February 2015
EN The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera [1065590]

Rees, T. (compiler): The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera [https://www.irmng.org] [as Prothalotia Thiele, 1930]
Data retrieved on: 30 November 2019

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