Fautor

Fautor

Taxobox
name = "Fautor"


image_caption =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Prosobranchia
ordo = Archaeogastropoda
superfamilia = Trochacea
familia = Trochidae
genus = "Fautor"
genus_authority = Iredale, 1924
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Fautor" is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Trochidae, the top shells.

Distribution

This genus is found in south eastern Australia, and New Zealand including the Kermadec Islands.

Description

The shells are small, narrow, with a tall spire and strongly sculptured post-nuclear whorls.

pecies within the genus "Fautor"

* "Fautor onustus" (Odhner, 1924)
* "Fautor consobrinum" (Powell, 1958)

References

* Powell A. W. B., "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
* [http://www.molluscs.otago.ac.nz/index.html NZ Mollusca]


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