Vanitrochus

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

Vanitrochus
Vanitrochus tragema
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Trochidae
Genus:	Vanitrochus Iredale, 1929
Type species
Solariella tragema Melvill & Standen, 1896
Synonyms
Minolia (Conotrochus) Pilsbry, 1889

Distribution

This marine genus occurs in the Gulf of Oman, Persian Gulf; in the Indian Ocean off Pakistan, Sri Lanka; in the Pacific Ocean off the Loyalty Islands, Tuvalu, New Caledonia and off Australia (Queensland)

Species

Species within the genus Vanitrochus include:

• Vanitrochus geertsi Poppe, Tagaro & Dekker, 2006^[2]
• Vanitrochus padangensis (Thiele, 1925)
• Vanitrochus semiustus (Fischer, 1879)
• Vanitrochus tragema (Melvill & Standen, 1896)

Species brought into synonymy

• Vanitrochus holdsworthiana Nevill, G. & H. Nevill, 1871: synonym of Pseudominolia musiva (Gould, A.A., 1861)