Sinum
Sinum | |
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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 | |
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Sinum is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Naticidae, the moon snails.[1] Most naticids have shells that are globular, but the shell of species in the genus Sinum is flattened to some extent, some being so flattened that they are ear-shaped.
Species
Species within the genus Sinum include:
- 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
- Sinum papilla ':[11] synonym of Eunaticina papilla (Gmelin, 1791)
References
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Sinum bifasciatum (Récluz, 1851). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 June 2010.
- ↑ Sinum concavum (Lamarck, 1822). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 June 2010.
- ↑ Gastropods.com
- ↑ A. Myra Keen, Sea Shells of Tropical West America, Stanford University Press, Second Edition, 1971, ISBN 0-8047-0736-7
- ↑ Sinum maculatum (Say, 1831). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 June 2010.
- ↑ Sinum minus (Dall, 1889). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 June 2010.
- ↑ Sinum perspectivum (Say, 1831). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 June 2010.
- ↑ Sinum vittatum Zhang, 2008. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 June 2010.
- ↑ OBIS : Sinum
- ↑ 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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