Xymene
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| Xymene | |
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| Dorsal view of a shell of Xymene ambiguus | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Subfamily: | Trophoninae |
| Genus: | Xymene Iredale, 1915 |
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Xymene is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Muricidae, the rock snails, found in New Zealand. [1]
Species
Species and subspecies within the genus Xymene include:
- Xymene ambiguus (Philippi, 1844)
- Xymene aucklandicus (E. A. Smith, 1902)
- Xymene convexus (Suter, 1909)
- Xymene erectus (Suter, 1909)
- Xymene gouldi (Cossmann, 1903)
- Xymene huttoni (Murdoch, 1900)
- Xymene mortenseni (Odhner, 1924)
- Xymene plebeius (Hutton, 1873)
- Xymene pulcherrimus (Finlay, 1930)
- Xymene pumilus (Suter, 1909)
- Xymene pusillus (Suter, 1907)
- Xymene teres (Finlay, 1930)
- Xymene traversi (Hutton, 1873)
- Xymene warreni Ponder, 1972
- Species brought into synonymy
- Xymene oliveri Marwick, 1924 : synonym of Xymene pusillus (Suter, 1907)
- Xymene quirindus Iredale, 1915 synonym of Xymene traversi (Hutton, 1873)
- Xymene robustus Finlay, 1924 synonym of Xymene pumilus (Suter, 1909)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Houart, R. (2010). Xymene Iredale, 1915. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=399023 on 2011-04-10
- Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
- W.F. Pondser, A review of the genus Xymene Iredale of New Zealand (Mollusca: Muricidae), Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 1972, vol. 2 (4), pp. 471-499
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