''Hypermastus'' is a
genus
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of
sea snail
Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...
s,
marine gastropod
Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusk
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s in the
family
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Eulimidae
Eulimidae is a family of very small parasitic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Vanikoroidea.
Description
These small parasitic snails live on (or in some cases in) the bodies of echinoderms such as sea cucumbers, se ...
.
[Pilsbry, 1899. Warén A. & Crossland M.R. (1991) Revision of Hypermastus Pilsbry, 1899 and Turveria Berry, 1956 (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Eulimidae), two genera parasitic on sand dollars. Records of the Australian Museum 43(1):85-112. Accessed through: ]World Register of Marine Species
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Content
The content of the registry is edited and maintained by scien ...
at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=225424 on 2013-03-11.[Warén A. (1984) A generic revision of the family Eulimidae (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia). Journal of Molluscan Studies suppl. 13: 1–96. page(s): 50.]
Species
Species within this genus include the following:
* ''
Hypermastus acutus''
(G. B. Sowerby I, 1834)
* ''
Hypermastus araeosomae''
(Habe, 1992)
* ''
Hypermastus auritae''
(Warén, 1991)
* ''
Hypermastus boschorum''
(Warén, 1991)
* ''
Hypermastus bulbulus''
(Murdoch & Suter, 1906)
* ''
Hypermastus casta''
(A. Adams
Arthur Adams (1820 in Gosport, Hampshire – 1878) was an England, English physician and natural history, naturalist.
Adams was assistant surgeon Royal Navy on board HMS Samarang (1822), HMS ''Samarang'' during the survey of the islands of ...
, 1861)
* ''
Hypermastus colmani''
(Warén, 1991)
* ''
Hypermastus coxi''
(Pilsbry
Henry Augustus Pilsbry (7 December 1862 – 26 October 1957) was an American biologist, malacologist and carcinologist, among other areas of study. He was a dominant presence in many fields of invertebrate taxonomy for the better part of a cent ...
, 1899)
* ''
Hypermastus cylindricus''
(Sowerby III
George Brettingham Sowerby III (London, 16 September 1843 – 31 January 1921) was a British conchologist, publisher, and illustrator.
He was the eldest son of G. B. Sowerby II. At the age of seventeen or eighteen, he began his career as a conc ...
, 1900)
* ''
Hypermastus echinocardiophilus''
(Habe, 1976)
* ''
Hypermastus echinodisci''
(Warén, 1980)
* ''
Hypermastus epeterion''
(Melvill, 1889)
* ''
Hypermastus epiphanes
''Hypermastus epiphanes'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eulimidae.Melvill, 1897. Warén A. & Crossland M.R. (1991) Revision of Hypermastus Pilsbry, 1899 and Turveria Berry, 1956 (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: E ...
''
(Melvill, 1897)
* ''
Hypermastus georgiregis''
(Cotton & Godfrey, 1932)
* ''
Hypermastus indistinctus''
(Thiele, 1925)
* ''
Hypermastus kilburni''
(Warén, 1991)
* ''
Hypermastus lacteus''
(A. Adams
Arthur Adams (1820 in Gosport, Hampshire – 1878) was an England, English physician and natural history, naturalist.
Adams was assistant surgeon Royal Navy on board HMS Samarang (1822), HMS ''Samarang'' during the survey of the islands of ...
, 1864)
* ''
Hypermastus mareticola''
(Warén & Norris, 1994)
* ''
Hypermastus minor''
(Warén, 1991)
* ''
Hypermastus mucronatus''
( Sowerby II, 1866)
* ''
Hypermastus obliquistomum''
(Warén, 1991)
* ''
Hypermastus orstomi''
(Warén, 1994)
* ''
Hypermastus peronellicola''
(Kuroda & Habe, 1950)
* ''
Hypermastus philippianus''
(Dunker, 1860)
* ''
Hypermastus placentae''
(Warén & Crossland, 1991)
* ''
Hypermastus productus''
(Sowerby III
George Brettingham Sowerby III (London, 16 September 1843 – 31 January 1921) was a British conchologist, publisher, and illustrator.
He was the eldest son of G. B. Sowerby II. At the age of seventeen or eighteen, he began his career as a conc ...
, 1894)
* ''
Hypermastus pusillus''
(Sowerby I
George Brettingham Sowerby I (12 August 1788 – 26 July 1854) was a British naturalist, illustrator and conchologist.
Life
He was the second son of James Sowerby. George was educated at home under private tutors, and afterwards assisted his f ...
, 1834)
* ''
Hypermastus randolphi''
(Vanatta, 1900)
* ''
Hypermastus roemerianus''
Matsuda, Uyeno & Nagasawa, 2013
* ''
Hypermastus rosa''
(Willett, 1944)
* ''
Hypermastus ryukyeunsis''
(Matsuda, Uyeno & Nagasawa, 2010)
* ''
Hypermastus sauliae''
(Warén, 1980)
* ''
Hypermastus serratus''
(Warén, 1991)
* ''
Hypermastus subula''
(A. Adams
Arthur Adams (1820 in Gosport, Hampshire – 1878) was an England, English physician and natural history, naturalist.
Adams was assistant surgeon Royal Navy on board HMS Samarang (1822), HMS ''Samarang'' during the survey of the islands of ...
, 1864)
* ''
Hypermastus tenuissimae''
(Warén, 1991)
* ''
Hypermastus tokunagai''
(Yokoyama, 1922)
* ''
Hypermastus williamsi''
(Cotton & Godfrey, 1932)
;Species brought into synonymy:
* ''Hypermastus bountyensis''
(Powell, 1933): synonym of ''
Pelseneeria bountyensis''
(Powell, 1933)
* ''Hypermastus bulbula''
(R. Murdoch & Suter, 1906): synonym of ''Hypermastus bulbulus''
(Murdoch & Suter, 1906)
* ''
Hypermastus cookeanus''
( Bartsch, 1917): synonym of ''
Stilapex cookeanus''
(Bartsch, 1917)
* ''Hypermastus dunkerianus''
(Pilsbry, 1901): synonym of ''Hypermastus philippiana''
(Dunker, 1860)
* ''Hypermastus lacteus''
(A. Adams, 1864): synonym of ''
Melanella tanabensis''
Takano, Tanaka & Kano, 2019
* ''Hypermastus roemeriana''
Matsuda, Uyeno & Nagasawa, 2013 a: synonym of ''Hypermastus roemerianus''
Matsuda, Uyeno & Nagasawa, 2013
References
* Warén, A. (1984). A generic revision of the family Eulimidae (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia). Journal of Molluscan Studies. suppl 13: 1–96.
External links
Warén A. & Crossland M.R.B. (1991). Revision of Hypermastus Pilsbry, 1899 and Turveria (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Eulimidae), two genera parasitic on sand dollars. Records of the Australian Museum. 43(1): 85-112
Eulimidae
{{Eulimidae-stub