Neptunea

Neptunea
Apertural view of a shell of Neptunea ithia, the operculum glued in place on cotton
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda

Superfamily: Buccinoidea
Family: Buccinidae
Genus: Neptunea
Röding, 1798
Synonyms[1]
  • Chrysodomus Swainson, 1840
  • Costaria Golikov, 1977
  • Fusus (Neptunea)
  • Golikovia Habe & Sato, 1973
  • Neptunia Locard, 1886 (Unjustified emendation)

Neptunea is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.[1]

Species

According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), the following species with valid names are included within the genus Neptunea :[1]

  • Neptunea acutispiralis Okutani, 1968
  • Neptunea alabaster Alexeyev & Fraussen, 2005
  • Neptunea alexeyevi Fraussen & Terryn, 2007
  • Neptunea amianta (Dall, 1890)
  • Neptunea antiqua (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Neptunea aurigena Fraussen & Terry, 2007
  • Neptunea beringiana (Middendorff, 1848)
  • Neptunea borealis (Philippi, 1850)
  • Neptunea bulbacea (Valenciennes, 1858)
  • Neptunea communis (Middendorff, 1848)
  • Neptunea constricta (Dall, 1907)
  • Neptunea contraria (Linnaeus, 1771)
  • Neptunea convexa Goryachev, 1978
  • Neptunea costaria Fraussen & Terryn, 2007
  • Neptunea cumingii Crosse, 1862
  • Neptunea cuspidis Fraussen & Terryn, 2007
  • Neptunea cybaea Fraussen & Terryn, 2007
  • Neptunea decemcostata (Say, 1826)
  • Neptunea denselirata Brøgger, 1901
  • Neptunea despecta (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Neptunea elegantula Ito & Habe, 1965
  • Neptunea ennae Sakurai & Chiba, 1969
  • Neptunea eulimata (Dall, 1907)
  • Neptunea frater (Pilsbry, 1901)
  • Neptunea fukueae Kuroda in Kira, 1955
  • Neptunea gulbini Goryachev & Kantor, 1983
  • Neptunea gyroscopoides Fraussen & Terryn, 2007
  • Neptunea hedychra Fraussen & Terryn, 2007
  • Neptunea heros Gray, 1850
  • Neptunea hesperica Fraussen & Terryn, 2007
  • Neptunea hiberna Fraussen & Terryn, 2007
  • Neptunea humboltiana Smith, 1971
  • Neptunea insularis (Dall, 1895)
  • Neptunea intersculpta (G.B. Sowerby III, 1899)
  • Neptunea ithia (Dall, 1891)
  • Neptunea jagudinae Goryachev & Kantor, 1983
  • Neptunea kuroshio Oyama in Kira, 1959
  • Neptunea laeva Golikov, Goryachev & Kantor, 1987
  • Neptunea lamellosa Golikov, 1962
  • Neptunea laticostata Golikov, 1962
  • Neptunea lyrata Gmelin, 1791
  • Neptunea magnanimita Fraussen & Terryn, 2007
  • Neptunea meridionalis Smith, 1971
  • Neptunea multistriata (Aurivillius, 1885)
  • Neptunea nivea Okutani, 1981
  • Neptunea nodositella Fraussen & Terryn, 2007
  • Neptunea occaecata Fraussen & Terryn, 2007
  • Neptunea ochotensis Golikov, 1962
  • Neptunea onchodes (Dall, 1907)
  • Neptunea phoenicea (Dall, 1907)
  • Neptunea polycostata Scarlato in Galkin et Scarlato, 1955
  • Neptunea pribiloffensis (Dall, 1919)
  • Neptunea purpurea Tiba, 1983
  • Neptunea robusta Okutani, 1964
  • Neptunea rugosa Golikov, 1962
  • Neptunea smirnia (Dall, 1919)
  • Neptunea stilesi Smith, 1968
  • Neptunea subdilatata (Yen, 1936)
  • Neptunea tabulata (Baird, 1863)
  • Neptunea tuberculata (Yokoyama, 1929)
  • Neptunea umbratica Fraussen & Terryn, 2007
  • Neptunea varicifera (Dall, 1907)
  • Neptunea ventricosa (Gmelin, 1791)
  • Neptunea vinlandica Fraussen & Terryn, 2007
  • Neptunea vinosa (Dall, 1919)
  • Neptunea vladivostokensis (Bartsch, 1929)
Species brought into synonymy 
Extinct species 

References

  1. 1 2 3 Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2010). Neptunea 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.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137710 on 2010-11-02
  • Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 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
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