Vanitrochus

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Kingdom Animalia Class Gastropoda Superfamily Trochoidea Rank Genus		Phylum Mollusca Clade Vetigastropoda Family Trochidae
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Vanitrochus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Trochidae, the top snails.

Distribution

This marine genus occurs in the Gulf of Oman, Persian Gulf; in the Indian Ocean off Pakistan, Sri Lanka; in the Pacific Ocean off the Loyalty Islands, Tuvalu, New Caledonia and off Australia (Queensland)

Species within the genus Vanitrochus include:

Vanitrochus geertsi Poppe, Tagaro & Dekker, 2006

Vanitrochus semiustus (Fischer, 1879)

Vanitrochus tragema (Melvill & Standen, 1896)

Species brought into synonymy

Vanitrochus holdsworthiana Nevill, G. & H. Nevill, 1871: synonym of Pseudominolia musiva (Gould, A.A., 1861)

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