Beringius
| Beringius | |
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| Apertural view of the shell of Beringius kenicottii | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Buccinoidea |
| Family: | Buccinidae |
| Subfamily: | Beringiinae |
| Genus: | Beringius Dall, 1879[1] |
Beringius is a genus of large sea snails or true whelks, a marine gastropod molluscs in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.
Beringius is the type genus of the subfamily Beringiinae.
Species
According to the World Register of Marine Species the following species with valid names are included within the genus Beringius : [2]
- Beringius behringi (Middendorff, 1848)
- Beringius bogasoni Waren & Smith, 2006
- Beringius crebricostatus
- Beringius eyerdami A.G. Smith, 1959
- Beringius frielei Dall, 1895
- Beringius kenicottii (Dall, 1871)
- Beringius polynematicus Pilsbry, 1907
- Beringius stimpsoni (Gould, 1860)
- Beringius turtoni (Bean, 1834)
- Beringius undatus Dall, 1919
References
- ↑ Dall W. H. (1879) Sci. Res. Explor. Alaska (Buccin.), expl. pl. 2, fig. 1.
- ↑ WoRMS : Prosipho;accessed : 29 August 2010