Oxystele is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[2] Although previously suggested as a subgenus of Diloma,[3] genetic analysis has shown it to be more appropriate as its own genus.[4]
^Philippi, Zeitschr. f Mal., 1847, p. 19
^Oxystele Philippi, 1847. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 2 July 2011.
^Heller, Joseph; Dempster, Yvonne (1991). "Detection of two coexisting species of Oxystele (Gastropoda: Trochidae) by morphological and electrophoretic analyses". Journal of Zoology. 223 (3): 395–418. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1991.tb04773.x.
^Donald, Kirsten M.; Kennedy, Martyn; Spencer, Hamish G. (2005). "The phylogeny and taxonomy of austral monodontine topshells (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochidae), inferred from DNA sequences". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 37 (2): 474–483. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2005.04.011.
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