Austrotriton Cossmann 1903

Austrotriton is a genus of medium-sized sea snails, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cymatiidae.^[2]

Species

The genus contains the following species:^[2]

• Austrotriton bassi (Angas, 1869)
• Austrotriton epitrema (Tenison Woods, 1877)
• Austrotriton garrardi Beu, 1970
• Austrotriton mimetica (Tate, 1893)
• Austrotriton petulans (Hedley & May, 1908)
• † Austrotriton radialis (Tate, 1888)
• Austrotriton subdistortus (Lamarck, 1822)

Species brought into synonymy

• † Austrotriton cyphoides Finlay, 1924: synonym of † Sassia cyphoides (Finlay, 1924)
• † Austrotriton maorium Finlay, 1924: synonym of † Sassia minima (Hutton, 1873)
• † Austrotriton morgani Marwick, 1931: synonym of † Sassia tortirostris (Tate, 1888)
• † Austrotriton neozelanica P. Marshall & Murdoch, 1923: synonym of † Sassia neozelanica (P. Marshall & R. Murdoch, 1923)
• Austrotriton parkinsonius (Perry, 1811): synonym of Austrosassia parkinsonia (Perry, 1811)

References

• Wenz (W.), 1941 Handbuch der Paläozoologie. Gastropoda, 6., p. 961-1200