Ascetostoma

Ascetostoma
Shell of Ascetostoma pteroton (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Superfamily:	Seguenzioidea
Family:	Chilodontaidae
Genus:	Ascetostoma Herbert, 2012
Type species
Euchelus providentiae Melvill, 1909

Ascetostoma is a genus of mostly small deep water sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Chilodontaidae.

Species

Species within the genus Ascetostoma include:

• Ascetostoma providentiae (Melvill, 1909)
• Ascetostoma pteroton Vilvens, 2017
• Ascetostoma ringens (Schepman, 1908)

References

• Vilvens C. (2017). New species and new records of Chilodontidae (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda: Seguenzioidea) from the Pacific Ocean. Novapex. 18 (Hors Série 11): 1-67

External links

• Herbert, D. G. (2012). A Revision of the Chilodontidae (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda: Seguenzioidea) of Southern Africa and the South-Western Indian Ocean. African Invertebrates. 53(2): 381-502