Eurytrochus

Eurytrochus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Trochinae of the family Trochidae, the top snails.^[2]

Eurytrochus
Shell of Eurytrochus reevei (paralectotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Trochidae
Genus:	Eurytrochus P. Fischer, 1879[1]
Type species
Clanculus danieli Crosse, H., 1862
Synonyms
Gibbula (Eurytrochus) Fischer, 1879

Description

The small shell is spirally lirate, depressed, and umbilicate. The body whorl is deflected toward the aperture. The oblique aperture is rounded-quadrangular. The terminations of the lips are approaching, connected by a callus. The outer and basal lips are crenulated within.^[3]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in Oceania, Japan, the Philippines and Australia (New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria)

Species

Species within the genus Eurytrochus include:^[2]

• Eurytrochus affinis (Garrett, 1872)
• Eurytrochus bathyrhaphe (E. A. Smith, 1876)
• Eurytrochus blanfordianus (G. Nevill, 1869)
• Eurytrochus charopiformis Willan, 2020
• Eurytrochus concinnus (Pilsbry, 1890)
• Eurytrochus danieli (Crosse, 1862)
• Eurytrochus fragarioides Willan, 2020
• Eurytrochus maccullochi (Hedley, C., 1907)
• Eurytrochus reevei Montrouzier, 1866
• Eurytrochus strangei (Adams, A., 1853)

Species brought into synonymy

• Eurytrochus affinis cognatus (Pilsbry, 1903): synonym of Clanculus cognatus (Pilsbry, 1903)
• Eurytrochus dacostana Preston, H.B., 1909: synonym of Eurytrochus strangei (Adams, A., 1853)
• Eurytrochus sticticus (A. Adams, 1854) (uncertain)