Eulitoma

Eulitoma
Shell of Eulitoma arcus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Vanikoroidea
Family:	Eulimidae
Genus:	Eulitoma Laseron, 1955
Type species
Eulitoma nitens Laseron, 1955

Eulitoma is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Eulimidae.

Species

Species within this genus include the following:

• Eulitoma akauni (Habe, 1952)
• Eulitoma arcus (Bouchet & Warén, 1986)
• Eulitoma insignis (Dautzenberg & Fischer H.,1896)
• Eulitoma josephinae (Bouchet & Warén, 1986)
• Eulitoma langfordi (Dall, 1925)
• Eulitoma nishimurai (Habe, 1958)
• Eulitoma nitens (Laseron, 1955)
• Eulitoma obtusiuscula (Bouchet & Warén, 1986)

Species brought into synonymy

• Eulitoma arca (Bouchet & Warén, 1986):synonym of Eulitoma arcus (Bouchet & Warén, 1986)
• Eulitoma castanea (Laseron, 1955): synonym of Fusceulima castanea (Laseron, 1955)

References

• Warén, A. (1984). A generic revision of the family Eulimidae (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia). Journal of Molluscan Studies. suppl 13: 1-96.

External links

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• Laseron C. F. (1955). Revision of the New South Wales Eulimoid shells. Australian Zoologist 12 (2): 83-101