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Zeacolpus

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Zeacolpus is a genus of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Turritellidae, known as the turritellas or tower shells. [1]

23 relations: Animal, Arthur William Baden Powell, Caenogastropoda, Cerithioidea, Frederick Wollaston Hutton, Gastropod shell, Gastropoda, Genus, Harold John Finlay, HarperCollins, John Marwick, Lovell Augustus Reeve, Mollusca, Ocean, Sea snail, Sorbeoconcha, Stiracolpus ahiparanus, Stiracolpus pagoda, Stiracolpus symmetricus, Turritellidae, Zeacolpus capricornius, Zeacolpus fulminatus, Zeacolpus vittatus.

Animal

Animals are multicellular eukaryotic organisms that form the biological kingdom Animalia.

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Arthur William Baden Powell

Arthur William Baden Powell (4 April 1901 – 1 July 1987) was a New Zealand malacologist, naturalist and palaeontologist, a major influence in the study and classification of New Zealand molluscs through much of the 20th century.

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Caenogastropoda

Caenogastropoda (from Ancient Greek caeno- meaning "recent") is a taxonomic clade, a large diverse group which are mostly sea snails and other marine gastropod mollusks, but also includes some freshwater snails and some land snails.

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Cerithioidea

The Cerithioidea is a superfamily of marine, brackish water and freshwater gastropod containing more than 200 genera.

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Frederick Wollaston Hutton

Captain Frederick Wollaston Hutton, FRS, (16 November 1836 – 27 October 1905) was an English-New Zealand scientist who applied the theory of natural selection to explain the origins and nature of the natural history of New Zealand.

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Gastropod shell

The gastropod shell is part of the body of a gastropod or snail, a kind of mollusc.

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Gastropoda

The gastropods, more commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca, called Gastropoda.

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Genus

A genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology.

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Harold John Finlay

Harold John Finlay (22 March 1901 – 7 April 1951) was a New Zealand palaeontologist and conchologist.

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HarperCollins

HarperCollins Publishers L.L.C. is one of the world's largest publishing companies and is one of the Big Five English-language publishing companies, alongside Hachette, Macmillan, Penguin Random House, and Simon & Schuster.

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John Marwick

John Marwick (3 February 1891 – 17 August 1978) was a New Zealand palaeontologist and geologist.

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Lovell Augustus Reeve

Lovell Augustus Reeve (19 April 1814 – 18 November 1865) was an English conchologist and publisher.

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Mollusca

Mollusca is a large phylum of invertebrate animals whose members are known as molluscs or mollusksThe formerly dominant spelling mollusk is still used in the U.S. — see the reasons given in Gary Rosenberg's.

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Ocean

An ocean (the sea of classical antiquity) is a body of saline water that composes much of a planet's hydrosphere.

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Sea snail

Sea snail is a common name for snails that normally live in saltwater, in other words marine gastropods.

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Sorbeoconcha

Sorbeoconcha is a taxonomic clade of snails, i.e. gastropods, mainly marine species with gills and opercula, within the clade Caenogastropoda.

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Stiracolpus ahiparanus

Stiracolpus ahiparanus, common name: the keeled screw shell, is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Turritellidae.

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Stiracolpus pagoda

Stiracolpus pagoda, common name the pagoda turret, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turritellidae.

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Stiracolpus symmetricus

Stiracolpus symmetricus, common name: the small turret, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turritellidae.

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Turritellidae

Turritellidae, common name the "tower shells" or "tower snails", is a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Sorbeoconcha.

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Zeacolpus capricornius

Zeacolpus capricornius is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turritellidae.

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Zeacolpus fulminatus

Zeacolpus fulminatus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turritellidae.

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Zeacolpus vittatus

Zeacolpus vittatus is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Turritellidae, the tower snails.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeacolpus

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