Tectus
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| Tectus | |
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| Shell of Tectus pyramis (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Tegulidae |
| Genus: | Tectus Montfort, 1810[1] |
| Type species | |
| Tectus pagodalis Montfort, 1810 | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Tectus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Tegulidae.[2]
Distribution
This marine genus has a wide distribution. It occurs in the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea, in the Central and East Indian Ocean and off East Africa, Oceania, Indo-China, Indo-Malaysia, the Philippines, East India, Australia (New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia), Kermadec Islands, New Caledonia, Anadaman Islands.
