title: Botelloides
text: # 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)
  