{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Plagiostropha vertigomaeniana 001.jpg |image_caption = Shell of ''Plagiostropha vertigomaeniana'' |display_parents = 3 |taxon = Plagiostropha |authority = Melvill, 1927 |synonyms_ref = |synonyms = |type_species = ''Plagiostropha quintuplex'' |type_species_authority = Melvill, 1927 |subdivision_ranks = Species |subdivision = See text }}

'''''Plagiostropha''''' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Drilliidae.<ref name="WoRMS">{{WRMS species|432535|''Plagiostropha'' ||2 November 2011}}</ref><ref name="Conoidea">{{cite journal |author1=P. Bouchet |author2=Yu. I. Kantor |author3=A. Sysoev |author4=N. Puillandre |year=2011 |title=A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda) |journal=Journal of Molluscan Studies |volume=77 |issue=3 |pages=273–308 |doi=10.1093/mollus/eyr017|doi-access=free }}</ref>

==Species== Species within the genus ''Plagiostropha'' include: * ''Plagiostropha alboscala'' <small>Chino & Stahlschmidt, 2020</small> * ''Plagiostropha bicolor'' <small>Chino & Stahlschmidt, 2010</small> * ''Plagiostropha brevifusca'' <small>Chino & Stahlschmidt, 2020</small> * ''Plagiostropha caledoniensis'' <small>(Wells, 1995)</small><ref>{{WRMS species|434645|''Plagiostropha caledoniensis'' (Wells, 1995)||13 April 2010}}</ref> * ''Plagiostropha chrysotincta'' <small>Chino & Stahlschmidt, 2020</small> * ''Plagiostropha costata'' <small>(Wells, 1995)</small><ref>{{WRMS species|434646|''Plagiostropha costata'' (Wells, 1995)||13 April 2010}}</ref> * ''Plagiostropha decapitata'' <small>Chino & Stahlschmidt, 2020</small> * ''Plagiostropha flexus'' <small>(Shuto, 1983)</small><ref>{{WRMS species|434647|''Plagiostropha flexus'' (Shuto, 1983)||13 April 2010}}</ref> * ''Plagiostropha hexagona''<small> (Wells, 1995)</small><ref>{{WRMS species|434648|''Plagiostropha hexagona'' (Wells, 1995)||13 April 2010}}</ref> * ''Plagiostropha opalus'' <small>(Reeve, 1845)</small> * ''Plagiostropha quintuplex'' <small>Melvill, 1927</small> * ''Plagiostropha roseopinna'' <small>Chino & Stahlschmidt, 2010</small> * ''Plagiostropha rubrifaba'' <small>Chino & Stahlschmidt, 2010</small> * ''Plagiostropha sinecosta'' <small>Wells, 1991</small><ref>{{WRMS species|434649|''Plagiostropha sinecosta'' Wells, 1991||13 April 2010}}</ref> * ''Plagiostropha vertigomaeniana'' <small>Chino & Stahlschmidt, 2010</small> ;Species brought into synonymy: * ''Plagiostropha gibberula'' <small>(Hervier, 1896)</small>: synonym of ''Drillia gibberulus'' <small>(Hervier, 1896)</small> * ''Plagiostropha turrita'' <small>Wells, 1995</small>: synonym of ''Splendrillia turrita'' <small>(Wells, 1995)</small>

==References== {{Reflist}} * Melvill, J.C. 1927. ''Descriptions of eight new species of the family Turridae and of a new species of Mitra''. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 17: 149–155, pl. 12

==External links== {{Commons category}} * [https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.mollus.a063910 Wells, F.E. 1995. ''A revision of the drilliid genera Splandrillia and Plagiostropha (Gastropoda: Conoidea) from New Caledonia, with additional records from other areas''. In, . Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM. Mémoires de Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 167: 1-654] * {{cite journal |author1=P. Bouchet |author2=Yu. I. Kantor |author3=A. Sysoev |author4=N. Puillandre |year=2011 |title=A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda) |journal=Journal of Molluscan Studies |volume=77 |issue=3 |pages=273–308 |doi=10.1093/mollus/eyr017|doi-access=free }}

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Category:Plagiostropha Category:Gastropod genera Category:Taxa named by James Cosmo Melvill

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