''Swainsonia'' 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 ...
mollusc
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s in the subfamily
Imbricariinae of the
family
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Mitridae
Mitridae, known as mitres or mitre shells, are a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic family (biology), family of sea snails, widely distributed marine (ocean), marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Mitroidea.
Both the Latin name and the common name a ...
.
Species
Species within the genus ''Swainsonia'' include:
* ''
Swainsonia biconica''
(Bozzetti, 2011)
* ''
Swainsonia casta''
(Gmelin, 1791)
* ''
Swainsonia ekerae''
(Cernohorsky, 1973)
* ''
Swainsonia fissurata''
Lamarck
* ''
Swainsonia fusca''
(Swainson, 1824)
* ''
Swainsonia limata''
(Reeve, 1845)
* ''
Swainsonia newcombii''
(Pease, 1869)
* ''
Swainsonia ocellata''
(Swainson, 1831)
;Species brought into synonymy:
* ''Swainsonia albina''
(A. Adams, 1853): synonym of ''
Scabricola albina''
(A. Adams, 1853)
* ''Swainsonia bicolor''
(Swainson, 1824): synonym of ''
Scabricola bicolor''
(Swainson, 1824)
* ''Swainsonia cloveri''
(Cernohorsky, 1971): synonym of ''
Imbricaria cloveri
''Imbricaria cloveri'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.
Description
The length of the shell varies between 13 mm and 35 mm.
Distribution
This marine species oc ...
''
(Cernohorsky, 1971)
* ''Swainsonia incisa''
(A. Adams & Reeve, 1850): synonym of ''
Scabricola incisa''
(A. Adams & Reeve, 185o)
* ''Swainsonia mariae''
(A. Adams, 1853): synonym of ''
Scabricola mariae''
(A. Adams, 1853)
* ''Swainsonia millepunctata''
(Schepman, 1911) : synonym of ''
Cancilla schepmani''
(Salisbury & Guillot de Suduiraut, 2003)
* ''Swainsonia olivaeformis''
(Swainson, 1821): synonym of ''
Scabricola olivaeformis''
(Swainson, 1821)
* ''Swainsonia schepmani''
(Salisbury & Guillot de Suduiraut, 2003): synonym of ''
Cancilla schepmani''
(Salisbury & Guillot de Suduiraut, 2003)
References
* Cernohorsky W. O. (1991). ''The Mitridae of the world (Part 2).'' Monographs of Marine Mollusca 4.
External links
Adams, H. & Adams, A. (1853-1858). The genera of Recent Mollusca; arranged according to their organization. London, van Voorst. Vol. 1: xl + 484 pp.; vol. 2: 661 pp.; vol. 3: 138 pls. Swainson W. (1829-1833). Zoological Illustrations, or original figures and descriptions of new, rare, or interesting animals, selected chiefly from the classes of ornithology, entomology, and conchology, and arranged according to their apparent affinities. Second series. London: Baldwin & Cradock. (Vol. 1-3): pl. 1-30 Fedosov A., Puillandre N., Herrmann M., Kantor Yu., Oliverio M., Dgebuadze P., Modica M.V. & Bouchet P. (2018). The collapse of Mitra: molecular systematics and morphology of the Mitridae (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 183(2): 253-337
Mitridae
Gastropod genera
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