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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Gastropoda
Subclassis: Heterobranchia
Infraclassis: "Lower Heterobranchia"
Superfamilia: Architectonicoidea

Familia: Architectonicidae
Genus: Pseudotorinia
Species: P. architae – P. phorcysi
Name

Pseudotorinia Sacco, 1892

Type species: Solarium obtusum Bronn,1831, by original designation.

Synonyms

Awarua Mestayer, 1930

References
Additional references

Cavallari, D.C., Salvador, R.B. & Simone, L.R.L. 2014. Taxonomical study on the Architectonicidae collected by the Marion Dufresne (MD55) expedition to SE Brazil (Gastropoda, Heterobranchia). Spixiana 37(1): 35–43. Full article (PDF). Reference page.

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Pseudotorinia in the World Register of Marine Species

Pseudotorinia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Architectonicidae, the staircase shells or sundials.[2][3]
Species

The following species are included in the genus Pseudotorinia:[1][4]

Pseudotorinia "architae-group"
Pseudotorinia aloysii (Selli, 1973)
Pseudotorinia amoena (Murdoch & Suter, 1906)
Pseudotorinia architae (O. G. Costa, 1841)
Pseudotorinia armillata Bieler, 1993
Pseudotorinia bullisi Bieler, Merrill & Boss, 1985
Pseudotorinia colmani (Garrard, 1977)
Pseudotorinia concava (Thiele, 1925)
Pseudotorinia delectabilis (Melvill, 1893)
Pseudotorinia gemmulata (Thiele, 1925)
Pseudotorinia jonasi Tenório, Barros, Francisco & Silva, 2011
Pseudotorinia kraussi J.E. Gray in M. E. Gray, 1850
Pseudotorinia laseronorum (Iredale, 1936)
Pseudotorinia numulus (Barnard, 1963)
Pseudotorinia panamensis (Bartsch, 1918)
Pseudotorinia phorcysi Cavallari, Salvador & Simone, 2014
Pseudotorinia sestertius Bieler, 1993
Pseudotorinia yaroni Bieler, 1993

Species brought into synonymy

Pseudotorinia retifera (Dall, 1892): synonym of the Pseudotorinia "architae-group"

References

"Pseudotorinia Sacco, 1892". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 7 January 2014.
Bieler, R. & Petit, R. E. (2005). "Catalogue of Recent and fossil taxa of the family Architectonicidae Gray, 1850 (Mollusca: Gastropoda)". Zootaxa 1101: 1–119. PDF.
Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2014). Pseudotorinia Sacco, 1892. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137666 on 2014-08-23
Cavallari, D.C.; Salvador, R.B.; Simone, L.R.L. "Taxonomical study on the Architectonicidae collected by the Marion Dufresne (MD55) expedition to SE Brazil" (PDF). Spixiana. 37 (1): 35–43. ISSN 0341-8391.

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