page_title: List of gastropods described in the 2000s
section_title: 2003
hierarchical_section_title: List of gastropods described in the 2000s / 2003
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of an apertural view of a shell of Tylomelania helmuti.
context_page_description: This list of gastropods described in the 2000s is a list of new species of gastropod mollusks that were described for the first time in the scientific literature during the time span from the year 2000 to the year 2009.
  The number of newly described gastropod is enormous. For example, in A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca there are 718 new records from this time span, which total unfortunately includes a number of synonyms.
context_section_description: New species
  Benthobia atafona Simone, 2003
  Benthobia complexirhyna Simone, 2003
  Benthobia sima Simone, 2003
  Benthobia tornatilis Simone, 2003
  Bythinella geisserti Boeters & Falkner, 2003
  Gabbia campícola Ponder, 2003
  Gabbia kendricki Ponder, 2003
  Gabbia pallidula Ponder, 2003
  Gabbia davisi Ponder, 2003
  Gabbia napierensis Ponder, 2003
  Gabbia rotunda Ponder, 2003
  Gabbia Fontana Ponder, 2003
  Gabbia obesa Ponder, 2003
  Gabbia túmida Ponder, 2003
  Gabbia kessneri Ponder, 2003
  Gabbia beecheyi Ponder, 2003
  Gabbia microcosta Ponder, 2003
  Gabbia adusta Ponder, 2003
  Gabbia lutaria Ponder, 2003
  Gabbia clathrata Ponder, 2003
  Gabbia spiralis Ponder, 2003
  Gabbia carinata Ponder, 2003
  Hirtudiscus boyacensis Hausdorf, 2003
  Hirtudiscus comatus Hausdorf, 2003
  Hirtudiscus curei Hausdorf, 2003
  Phyllodesmium parangatum Ortiz & Gosliner, 2003
  Tritonia bollandi Smith & Gosliner, 2003
  Tylomelania bakara Von Rintelen & Glaubrecht, 2003
  Tylomelania kruimeli Von Rintelen & Glaubrecht, 2003
  Tylomelania helmuti Von Rintelen & Glaubrecht, 2003
  Other taxa
  subfamily Depressizoninae Geiger, 2003. It was considered a synonym of Scissurellinae according to Bouchet & Rocroi 2005, but in 2009 it was updated to family level Depressizonidae.
  tribe Bistolidini C. Meyer, 2003 in the Cypraeidae
  tribe Isandini Hickman, 2003 in the Umboiniinae, Trochidae.
  genus Contradusta Meyer, 2003
  genus Cryptocypraea Meyer, 2003
  genus Jagora Köhler & Glaubrecht, 2003
  genus Palmulacypraea Meyer, 2003
caption: A shell of Tylomelania helmuti
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