Vanikoro (gastropod)
Vanikoro | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
Superfamily: | Vanikoroidea |
Family: | Vanikoridae |
Genus: | Vanikoro Quoy & Gaimard, 1832[1] |
Type species | |
Vanikoro cancellata Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de, 1822 | |
Synonyms[2] | |
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Vanikoro is a genus of very small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Vanikoridae.[2]
Distribution
This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Mauritius.
Species
Species within the genus Vanikoro include:
- Vanikoro aperta (Carpenter, 1864)
- Vanikoro cancellata (Lamarck, 1822)
- Vanikoro cumingiana (Récluz, 1844)
- Vanikoro cuvieriana (Recluz, 1845)
- Vanikoro distans (Recluz, 1845)
- Vanikoro galapagana Hertlein & Strong, 1951
- Vanikoro granulosa Recluz, 1845
- Vanikoro kilburni Drivas, J. & M. Jay, 1989
- Vanikoro ligata (Recluz, 1843)
- Vanikoro mauritii (Recluz, 1845)
- Vanikoro natalensis E. A. Smith, 1908
- Vanikoro plicata (Recluz, 1844)
- Vanikoro striatus (d’Orbigny, 1842)
- Vanikoro sulcatus (d'Orbigny, 1842)[3]
- Vanikoro wallacei Iredale, 1912
- Species brought into synonymy
- Vanikoro aenigmatica Turton, 1932: synonym of Couthouyia incerta (Turton, 1932)
- Vanikoro deshayesiana (Récluz, 1844) : synonym of Vanikoro ligata (Recluz, 1844)
References
- ↑ Quoy & Gaimard (1833). In: d'Urville, Voy. "Astrolabe", Zool. 2: 239.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Vanikoro Quoy & Gaimard, 1832. Vanikoro Quoy & Gaimard, 1832. 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=204656 on 3 July 2012.
- ↑ Rosenberg, G. (2010). Vanikoro sulcatus (d'Orbigny, 1842). 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=532309 on 2010-12-18
- Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
- Richmond, M. (Ed.) (1997). A guide to the seashores of Eastern Africa and the Western Indian Ocean islands. Sida/Department for Research Cooperation, SAREC: Stockholm, Sweden. ISBN 91-630-4594-X. 448 pp