Botelloides
# Botelloides

Botelloides is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Trochidae, the top snails.

## Description

The general characteristics of the species in this genus are:

* the shell is subcylindrical and pupoid in shape
* the whorls wind obliquely on the last two-thirds of the shell
* sculpture: the earlier whorls are smooth, the later ones bear fine incised, spiral grooves
* the shape of the aperture is pyriform to circular
* the columella is excavate
* the outer lip is grooved within and bevelled to a sharp edge

Differences between the species are defined by the shell gradually widening towards the body whorl, or the shell not widening but is cylindrical.

## Distribution

The species in this marine genus are endemic to Australia and occurs off New South Wales, the Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia.

## Species

Species within the genus Botelloides include:

* Botelloides bassianus (Hedley, 1911)
* Botelloides chrysalidus (Chapman & Gabriel, 1914)
* Botelloides glomerosus (Hedley, 1907)
* Botelloides ludbrookae Ponder, 1985
* Botelloides sulcatus (Cotton, 1944)
