Sinum

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Sinum
Five views of a shell of Sinum cymba
A shell of Sinum cymba
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Naticoidea
Family: Naticidae
Genus: Sinum
Röding, 1798
Type species
Helix haliotoidea Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms
  • Catinus Oken, 1835
  • Sigaretus Lamarck, 1799
  • Cryptostoma Blainville, 1818
  • Ectosinum Iredale, 1931

Sinum is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Naticidae, the moon snails.[1]

Species

Species within the genus Sinum include:

Shells of Sinum grayi
A shell of Sinum haliotoideum
  • Sinum bifasciatum (Récluz, 1851)[2]
  • Sinum concavum (Lamarck, 1822)[3]
  • Sinum cymba (Menke, K.T., 1828)[4]
  • Sinum debile (Gould, 1853)
  • Sinum delesserti (Récluz in Chenu, 1843)
  • Sinum diauges Kilburn, 1974
  • Sinum eximium (Reeve, 1864)
  • Sinum grayi G. P. Deshayes, 1843[5]
  • Sinum haliotoideum (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Sinum incisum (Reeve, 1864)
  • Sinum japonicum (Lischke, 1872)
  • Sinum javanicum (Gray, 1834)
  • Sinum keratium Dall, 1919
  • Sinum javanicum Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1834
  • Sinum laevigatum (Lamarck, 1822)
  • Sinum maculatum (Say, 1831)[6]
  • Sinum minus (Dall, 1889)[7]
  • Sinum neritoideum (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Sinum noyesii Dall, 1903
  • Sinum perspectivum (Say, 1831)[8]
  • Sinum planatum (Récluz, 1843)
  • Sinum quasimodoides Kilburn, 1976
  • Sinum sanctijohannis (Pilshry & Lowe, 1932)
  • Sinum scopulosum (Conrad, 1849)
  • Sinum vittatum Zhang, 2008[9]
  • Sinum zonale (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832)

The Indo-Pacific Molluscan database also mentions the following species with names in current use [10]

  • Sinum acuminatus (Adams & Reeeve, 1850)
  • Sinum cuvierianus Récluz, 1844
  • Sinum insculptus Adams & Reeve, 1850
  • Sinum latifasciatus Adams & Reeve, 1850
  • Sinum parvus (E. A. Smith, 1895)
  • Sinum petitianus Récluz, 1843
  • Sinum sinuatus Récluz, 1851
  • Sinum tener (Smith, 1894)
  • Sinum unifasciatus Récluz, 1843
  • Sinum zonale (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832)
Species brought into synonymy 

References

  1. Sinum Röding, 1798. WoRMS (2010). Sinum Röding, 1798. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.eu/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138244 on 16 June 2010.
  2. Sinum bifasciatum (Récluz, 1851).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 June 2010.
  3. Sinum concavum (Lamarck, 1822).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 June 2010.
  4. Gastropods.com
  5. A. Myra Keen, Sea Shells of Tropical West America, Stanford University Press, Second Edition, 1971, ISBN 0-8047-0736-7
  6. Sinum maculatum (Say, 1831).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 June 2010.
  7. Sinum minus (Dall, 1889).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 June 2010.
  8. Sinum perspectivum (Say, 1831).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 June 2010.
  9. Sinum vittatum Zhang, 2008.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 June 2010.
  10. OBIS : Sinum
  11. Sinum papilla .  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 June 2010.
  • MacNae, W. & M. Kalk (eds) (1958). A natural history of Inhaca Island, Mozambique. Witwatersrand Univ. Press, Johannesburg. I-iv, 163 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
  • Rolán E., 2005. Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda.

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