Rossiteria

Rossiteria is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Trochidae, the top snails.^[1]

Rossiteria
Original drawing with two views of a shel of Rossiteria nucleolus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Trochidae
Genus:	Rossiteria Brazier, 1895
Type species
Trochus nucleus Philippi, R.A., 1849
Synonyms
Gibbula (Rossiteria) Brazier, 1895 (original rank) Monilea (Rossiteria) Brazier, 1895 Solanderia P. Fischer, 1879 (Invalid: junior homonym of Solanderia Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1846 [Cnidaria]; Rossiteria is a replacement name) Trochus (Solanderia) P. Fischer, 1879 ( junior homonym of Solanderia Duchassaing & Michelin, 1846)

Description

The umbilicus is narrow. The columella is arcuate, obliquely plicate, terminating in a strong anterior tooth.^[2]

Species

Species within the genus Rossiteria include:^[1]

• Rossiteria nucleolus (Pilsbry, 1903)
• Rossiteria nucleus (Philippi, 1849)
• Rossiteria pseudonucleolus Poppe, Tagaro & Dekker, 2006^[3]

Species brought into synonymy

• Monilea (Rossiteria) nucleolus Pilsbry, 1903: synonym of Rossiteria nucleolus (Pilsbry, 1903)