Babylonia (gastropod)

Babylonia

Apical view of a shell of Babylonia areolata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Babyloniidae
Genus:	Babylonia Schlüter, 1838^[1]
Synonyms^[2]
Latrunculus Gray, 1847 (Objective synonym, with the same type species) Peridipsaccus Rovereto, 1900

Babylonia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Babyloniidae.^[2]

Species

According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), the following species with valid names are included within the genus Babylonia:^[3]

Babylonia ambulacrum (G.B. Sowerby I, 1825)
Babylonia angusta Altena & Gittenberger, 1981
Babylonia areolata (Link, 1807)
Babylonia borneensis (G.B. Sowerby II, 1864)
Babylonia feicheni Shikama, 1973
Babylonia formosae (G.B. Sowerby II, 1866)
Babylonia habei Altena & Gittenberger, 1981
Babylonia hongkongensis Lai & Guo, 2010
Babylonia japonica (Reeve, 1842)
Babylonia kirana Habe, 1965
Babylonia leonis Altena & Gittenberger, 1972
Babylonia lutosa (Lamarck, 1819)
Babylonia magnifica Fraussen & Stratmann, 2005^[4]
Babylonia perforata (G.B. Sowerby II, 1870)
- Babylonia perforata perforata (G.B. Sowerby II, 1870)
- Babylonia perforata pieroangelai Cossigniani, 2008 - synonym: Babylonia pieroangelai Cossignani, 2008^[5]
- Babylonia pintado f. millepunctata (Turton, 1932)
Babylonia spirata (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Babylonia spirata f. chrysostoma (G.B. Sowerby II, 1866)
- Babylonia spirata f. semipicta (G.B. Sowerby II, 1866)
Babylonia tesselata (Swainson, 1823) - synonym: Babylonia lani Gittenberger E. & Goud, 2003^[6]
Babylonia umbilifusca Gittenberger E. & Goud, 2003^[7]
Babylonia valentiana (Chemnitz, 1780)
Babylonia zeylanica (Bruguière, 1789)

Species within the genus Babylonia that have become synonyms:

Babylonia papillaris (G.B. Sowerby I, 1825) is a synonym of Zemiropsis papillaris (G.B. Sowerby I, 1825)
Babylonia pintado Kilburn, 1971 is a synonym of Zemiropsis pintado (Kilburn, 1971)
Babylonia pulchrelineata Kilburn, 1973 is a synonym of Zemiropsis pulchrelineata (Kilburn, 1973)
Babylonia rosadoi Bozzetti, 1998^[8] is a synonym of Zemiropsis rosadoi (Bozzetti, 1998)

^ Schlüter (1838). Kurzg. syst. Verz. Conch., 18.
^ ^a ^b Babylonia Schlüter, 1838. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=456368 on 25 April 2010.
^ WoRMS : Babylonia; accessed : 29 December 2010
^ Babylonia magnifica Fraussen & Stratmann, 2005. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=457368 on 25 April 2010.
^ Babylonia pieroangelai Cossignani, 2008. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=457132 on 25 April 2010.
^ Babylonia lani Gittenberger E. & Goud, 2003. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=457442 on 25 April 2010.
^ Babylonia umbilifusca Gittenberger E. & Goud, 2003. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=457443 on 25 April 2010.
^ Babylonia rosadoi Bozzetti, 1998. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=456924 on 25 April 2010.

Altena C. O. van Regteren & Gittenberger E. (1981). "The genus Babylonia (Prosobranchia: Buccinidae)". Zoologische Verhandelingen 188: 1-57, + 11 pls. PDF.
Gittenberger E. & Goud J. (2003). "The genus Babylonia revisited (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Buccinidae)". Zoologische Verhandelingen 345: 151-162. PDF