Petaloconchus

Petaloconchus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Vermetidae, the worm snails or worm shells.^[1]

Petaloconchus
Petaloconchus intortus (Lamarck, 1818)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Vermetoidea
Family:	Vermetidae
Genus:	Petaloconchus Lea, 1843
Type species
† Petaloconchus sculpturatus H. C. Lea, 1843
Synonyms
Macrophragma Carpenter, 1857 Petaloconchus (Macrophragma) Carpenter, 1857· accepted, alternate representation Thylacodus Mörch, 1860 Vermetus (Petaloconchus) H. C. Lea, 1843

Species

Species within the genus Petaloconchus include:

• Petaloconchus apakadikike W. C. Kelly, 2007
• Petaloconchus caperatus (Tate & May, 1900)
• Petaloconchus cereus Carpenter, 1857
• Petaloconchus cochlidium Carpenter, 1857
• Petaloconchus compactus (Carpenter, 1864)
• Petaloconchus complicatus Dall, 1908
• Petaloconchus erectus (Dall, 1888)^[2]
• Petaloconchus flavescens Carpenter, 1857
• Petaloconchus floridanus Olsson & Harbison, 1953^[3]
• Petaloconchus glomeratus (Linnaeus, 1758)^[4]
• Petaloconchus innumerabilis Pilsbry & Olsson, 1935
• Petaloconchus interliratus Stearns, 1893^[5]
• Petaloconchus intortus (Lamarck, 1818)
• Petaloconchus keenae Hadfield & Kay, 1972
• Petaloconchus lamellosus Ladd, 1972
• Petaloconchus laurae Scuderi, 2012
• Petaloconchus lilacinus (Mörch, 1862)
• Petaloconchus lilandikike W. C. Kelly, 2007
• Petaloconchus macrophragma Carpenter, 1857
• Petaloconchus mcgintyi Olsson & Harbison, 1953^[6]
• Petaloconchus merkana Ladd, 1972
• Petaloconchus montereyensis Dall, 1919
• Petaloconchus myrakeenae Absalão & Rios, 1987
• Petaloconchus nerinaeoides Carpenter, 1857
• Petaloconchus nigricans (Dall, 1884)^[7]
• Petaloconchus octosectus Carpenter, 1857
• Petaloconchus pachylasma (Mörch, 1862)
• Petaloconchus renisectus Carpenter, 1857
• † Petaloconchus sculpturatus H. C. Lea, 1843
• Petaloconchus tokyoensis (Pilsbry, 1895)
• Petaloconchus varians (d'Orbigny, 1839)≤^[8]

Species brought into synonymy

• Petaloconchus adansoni (Daudin, 1800):^[9] synonym of Vermetus adansonii Daudin, 1800 (incorrect generic placement)
• Petaloconchus annulatus (Yokoyama, 1924): synonym of Vermetus annulatus Yokoyama, 1924
• Petaloconchus floridana [sic]: synonym of Petaloconchus floridanus Olsson & Harbison, 1953 (incorrect gender ending)