Epitonium (Nitidiscala)

Epitonium berryi, copyright B. P. Murphy.

Belongs within: Epitoniidae.

The subgenus Nitidiscala includes relatively small and delicate representatives of the genus Epitonium.

<==Epitonium (Nitidiscala De Boury 1909)O27
    |--E. (N.) berryi Dall 1907O27
    |--E. (N.) caamanoi Dall & Bartsch 1910O27
    |--E. (N.) californicum Dall 1917O27
    |--E. (N.) catalinense Dall 1917O27
    |--E. (N.) columbianum Dall 1917O27
    |--E. (N.) crebricostatum Carpenter 1886O27
    |--E. (N.) densiclathratum Dall 1917O27
    |--E. (N.) diegensis Dall 1917O27
    |--E. (N.) fallaciosum Dall 1917O27
    |--E. (N.) hexagonum (Sowerby 1844) [=Scalaria hexagona]O27
    |--‘Scalaria’ (N.) hindsii Carpenter 1856O27
    |--E. (N.) inconspicuum Sowerby 1847O27
    |--E. (N.) indianorum (Carpenter 1865) [=Scalaria indianorum]O27
    |--E. (N.) persuturum Dall 1917O27
    |--E. (N.) rectilaminatum Dall 1907O27
    |--E. (N.) regiomontanumO27
    |--E. (N.) sawinae (Dall 1903) [=Scala sawinae]O27
    |--E. (N.) skoglundae DuShane 1974BC01
    |--E. (N.) subcoronatum (Carpenter 1866) [=Scalaria subcoronata]O27
    `--E. (N.) tiara Carpenter 1856O27

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[BC01] Boyko, C. B., & J. R. Cordeiro. 2001. Catalog of Recent type specimens in the Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History. V. Mollusca, part 2 (class Gastropoda [exclusive of Opisthobranchia and Pulmonata], with supplements to Gastropoda [Opisthobranchia], and Bivalvia). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 262: 1–170.

[O27] Oldroyd, I. S. 1927. The Marine Shells of the West Coast of North America vol. 2 pt 2. Stanford University Press: Stanford University (California).

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