Polinices
Polinices is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Naticidae known as moon shells. [1]
Glossaulax Pilsbry, 1929 is a synonym or a subgenus of Polinices.
Species
Species within the genus Polinices include:
- Polinices albumen (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Polinices aperinus
- Polinices aurantius (Röding, 1798)
- Polinices bahamiensis (Dall, 1825)
- Polinices bifasciatus (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1834)
- Polinices candidissimus (Le Guillou, 1842)
- Polinices columnaris (Récluz, 1850)
- Polinices draconis (Dall, 1903)
- Polinices flemingianus (Recluz, 1844)
- Polinices grossularia Marche-Marchad, 1957
- Polinices helicoides (Gray, 1825)
- Polinices hepaticus (Röding, 1798) - brown moonsnail
- Polinices lacteus (Guilding, 1834) - milk moonsnail
- Polinices leptaleus Watson, 1881
- Polinices mammilla (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Polinices mellosum (Hedley, 1924)
- Polinices nubilus (Dall, 1889)
- Polinices otis Broderip & Sowerby, 1829
- Polinices parvulus Bozzetti, 2010
- Polinices peselephanti (Link, 1807)
- Polinices politiana
- Polinices porcelanus (d'Orbigny, 1839)
- Polinices priamus (Récluz, 1843)
- Polinices uber (Valenciennes, 1832)
- Polinices uberinus (d'Orbigny, 1842) - dwarf white moonsnail, white moonsnail
- Polinices zanzibarica Recluz
- Species brought into synonymy
- Polinices didyma (Röding, 1798)[2] : synonym of Neverita didyma (Röding, 1798)
- Polinices duplicatus (Say, 1822) : synonym of Neverita duplicata (Say, 1822)
- Polinices heros Say, 1822 : synonym of Euspira heros (Say, 1822)
- Polinices lewisii is a synonym for Euspira lewisii (Gould, 1847)[3]
- Polinices nanus Möller, 1842 : synonym of Pseudopolinices nanus (Möller, 1842)
- Polinices tawhitirahia Powell, 1965 : synonym of Polinices mellosum (Hedley, 1924)
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