Umbonium

Umbonium
Two views of a shell of Umbonium giganteum
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Umbonium
Link, 1807
Type species
Trochus vestiarius
Synonyms
  • Globulus Schumacher, 1817 (objective synonym of Umbonium)
  • Rotella Lamarck, 1822
  • Suchium Makiyama, 1924

Umbonium, sometimes known as the "button top shells", is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Trochidae, the top snails.

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