Ocenebra
| Ocenebra | |
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| A beachworn shell of Ocenebra erinaceus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Subfamily: | Ocenebrinae |
| Genus: | Ocenebra Gray, 1847[1] |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Ocenebra is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex and rock snails. [2]
Species
Species with accepted names within the genus Ocenebra include according to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) :[2]
- Ocenebra acanthophora (A. Adams, 1863)
- Ocenebra brevirobusta Houart, 2000
- Ocenebra chavesi Houart, 1996
- Ocenebra erinaceus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Ocenebra inornata (Récluz, 1851)
- Ocenebra lumaria Yokoyama, 1926
- Species brought into synonymy
- Ocenebra erinacea (Linnaeus, 1758) - sting winkle : synonym of Ocenebra erinaceus (Linnaeus, 1758) but still accepted as a valid name by the ICZN (Op. 886) [3]
- Ocenebra contracta (Reeve, 1846) : synonym of Ergalatax contracta (Reeve, 1846)
- Ocenebra fenestrata : synonym of Muricodrupa fenestrata (Blainville, 1832)
- Ocenebra gibbosus : synonym of Jaton decussatus (Gmelin, 1791)
- Ocenebra inermicosta Vokes, 1964 : synonym of Inermicosta inermicosta (Vokes, 1964)
- Ocenebra purpuroides (Reeve, 1845): synonym of Vaughtia purpuroides (Reeve, 1845)
- Ocenebra scrobiculata (Philippi, 1846): synonym of Vaughtia scrobiculata (Dunker, 1846)
References
- ↑ Gray (October 1847). Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. 20: 269; (November 1847), Proc. zool. Soc. London 15: 133.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Houart, R.; Gofas, S. (2010). Ocenebra Gray, 1847. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138200 on 2010-12-02
- ↑ Backeljau, T. (1986). Lijst van de recente mariene mollusken van België [List of the recent marine molluscs of Belgium]. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 106 pp.