Demoulia
Demoulia | |
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Two shells of Demoulia abbreviata (museum specimens at Naturalis Biodiversity Center) | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Buccinoidea |
Family: | Nassariidae |
Subfamily: | Nassariinae |
Genus: | Demoulia Gray, 1838 |
Type species | |
Buccinum retusum Lamarck, 1822 | |
Synonyms[1] | |
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Demoulia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks.[1]
Species
Species within the genus Demoulia include:
- Demoulia abbreviata (Gmelin, 1791)
- † Demoulia conglobata (Brocchi, 1814)
- Demoulia obtusata (Link, 1807)[2]
- † Demoulia pupa (Brocchi, 1814)
- Demoulia ventricosa (Lamarck, 1816)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Demoulia kurodai Tomlin, 1932 : synonym of Nassarius sufflatus (Gould, 1860)
- Demoulia pulchra Gray, 1838 : synonym of Demoulia obtusata (Link, 1807)
- Demoulia retusa (Lamarck, 1822): synonym of Demoulia ventricosa (Lamarck, 1816)
References
- 1 2 Demoulia Gray, 1838. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 February 2011.
- ↑ Demoulia obtusata (Link, 1807). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 18 April 2010.
- Gray J.E. (1838) On some new species of quadrupeds and shells. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 1, 1, 27–30.
- Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp
- Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180-213
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