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Rapaninae
Rapaninae is a subfamily (biology), subfamily of predatory sea snails, marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks in the family (biology), family Muricidae.Houart, R. (2011). Rapaninae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=196295 on 2011-03-01 This subfamily was known as Thaidinae until 1993. Shell description The shell is usually more or less pyriforra, and often produced anteriorly. The Spire (mollusc), spire is short. The inner Lip (gastropod), lip is convex and smooth. The shells of species in this subfamily typically do not have a varix (mollusc), varix, but strong axial sculpture (mollusc), sculpture is often present. The Operculum (gastropod), operculum is ovate, blunt. The nucleus is elongate, forming the outer or hinder edge. Genera Genera within the subfamily Rapaninae include: * ''Acanthais'' Vermeij & Kool, 1994 * ''Agnewia'' Woods, 1878 * † ''Califrapana'' C. L. Powell & Houart, 2021 * † ''C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acanthais
''Acanthais'' is a genus of sea snails, marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks in the family (biology), family Muricidae, known as the murex snails or rock snails. Species Species within the genus ''Acanthais'' include: * ''Acanthais brevidentata'' (Wood, 1828) References Acanthais, Rapaninae Gastropod genera {{Rapaninae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drupina
''Drupina'' is a genus of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae Muricidae is a large and varied taxonomic family of small to large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks, commonly known as murex snails or rock snails. With over 1,700 living species, the Muricidae represent almost 10% of the Neog ..., the murex snails or rock snails.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Drupina Dall, 1923. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=596433 on 2020-10-26 Species * '' Drupina grossularia'' (Röding, 1798) * '' Drupina lobata'' (Blainville, 1832) References * Claremont M., Reid D.G. & Williams S.T. (2012) Speciation and dietary specialization in Drupa, a genus of predatory marine snails (Gastropoda: Muricidae). Zoologica Scripta 41: 137-149. * Claremont M., Vermeij G.J., Williams S.T. & Reid D.G. (2013) Global phylogeny and new classification of the Rapaninae (Gastropod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dicathais
''Dicathais'' is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Muricidae, the rock snails. This genus is monotypic; the only species in it is ''Dicathais orbita'', common name the white rock shell or cart-rut shell, found round the coasts of Australia and New Zealand. Description The white rock shell is large with a strong shell usually about long, but occasionally growing to twice this size. It shows great variation in its shell sculpture across its range. In eastern Australia there are seven to nine deeply indented ribs in each whorl with clefts of a similar width between them, sculptured with further fine riblets. This gives a fluted edge to the lip and the grooves can also be seen on the interior surface of the shell. The central column or columella is smooth and the interior of the shell is white. The western Australian form has a row of well marked nodules rather than ridges and an unindented lip while the southern Australian form has much less d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cymia
''Cymia'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae Muricidae is a large and varied taxonomic family of small to large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks, commonly known as murex snails or rock snails. With over 1,700 living species, the Muricidae represent almost 10% of the Neog ..., the murex snails or rock snails. Species * '' Cymia tectum'' (W. Wood, 1828) References Monotypic gastropod genera {{Rapaninae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muricidae
Muricidae is a large and varied taxonomic family of small to large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks, commonly known as murex snails or rock snails. With over 1,700 living species, the Muricidae represent almost 10% of the Neogastropoda. Additionally, 1,200 fossil species have been recognized.Houart, Roland. (2018). "Historique et classification des espèces actuelles de Muricidae (Neogastropoda, Muricoidea)." ''Novapex'' 19:37–66 Numerous subfamilies are recognized, although experts disagree about the subfamily divisions and the definitions of the genera. Many muricids have unusual shells which are considered attractive by shell collectors and by interior designers. Shell description Muricid shells are variably shaped, generally with a raised spire and strong sculpture with spiral ridges and often axial varices (typically three or more varices on each whorl), also frequently bearing spines, tubercles, or blade-like processes. Periostracum is absent in thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agnewia
''Agnewia'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae Muricidae is a large and varied taxonomic family of small to large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks, commonly known as murex snails or rock snails. With over 1,700 living species, the Muricidae represent almost 10% of the Neog ..., the murex snails or rock snails. Species Species within the genus ''Agnewia'' include: * '' Agnewia adelaidae'' (A. Adams & Angas, 1863) * † '' Agnewia kempae'' Powell, 1934 * '' Agnewia tritoniformis'' (Blainville, 1833) ;Species brought into synonymy: * ''Agnewia nautica'' Thornley, 1952: synonym of ''Agnewia tritoniformis'' (Blainville, 1832) References * Claremont M., Vermeij G.J., Williams S.T. & Reid D.G. (2013) Global phylogeny and new classification of the Rapaninae (Gastropoda: Muricidae), dominant molluscan predators on tropical rocky seashores. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 66: 91–102. External links Forbes E. (1852) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ecphora
Ecphora is the common name for a group of extinct predatory marine gastropod mollusks within the family Muricidae, the rocks snails or murexes. The common name is based on the first officially described genus, '' Ecphora''. The entire lineage of these ocenebrinid murexes are descended from the Eocene murex, '' Tritonopsis''. Ecphoras were indigenous to the North American Eastern Seaboard, being found in marine strata from the Late Eocene until their extinction during the Pliocene. Many ecphora species are important index fossils. Etymology The name "Ecphora" is Greek, meaning "bearing out." The word was originally used by Vitruvius to signify the projecture of a member or moulding of a column, and here refers to the distinctive "T-shaped" ribs that project from the shell.Oxford English Dictionary, "Ecphora" entry. Subdivisions There are at least 70 recognized species in eight genera, and one subgenus of ecphoras recognized. *'' Rapanecphora'' from Priaboian stage (Eocen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drupa (gastropod)
''Drupa'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. It occurs in the Indo-Pacific. Description In this genus, the shell has a narrow aperture occluded by columellar and outer lip teeth. (Described as ''Pentadactylus'') The solid shell is ovate. The spire is short. The whorls are tubercular or spinous. The aperture is linear, narrow, contracted by callous projections, with an oblique emarginate Siphonal canal in front. The inner lip is wrinkled. The outer lip is internally with plait-like teeth, often digitate. Diet ''Drupa'' snails are predators that mainly feed on polychaetes but also on vermetids, sipunculids, crustaceans and fish. Species Species within the genus ''Drupa'' include: * '' Drupa albolabris'' (Blainville, 1832) * '' Drupa aperta'' (Blainville, 1832) * '' Drupa clathrata'' (Lamarck, 1816) * '' Drupa denticulata'' Houart & Vilvens, 1997 * '' Drupa elegans'' (Broderip & Sowerby, 1829) * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Concholepas
''Concholepas'' is a genus of medium-sized to large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the rock shells.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Concholepas Lamarck, 1801. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=395240 on 2020-09-03 Description The shell is ovate. The body whorl is large and expanded. The spire is very short and obliquely inclined towards the left side. The aperture is very wide, slightly channelled anteriorly. The inner lip is flattened. The outer lip shows two small teeth in front. The only Recent species known of this genus is from Peru. It lives upon the rocks and stones along the shore, and, considering the size of the foot, is, according to D'Orbigny Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d'Orbigny (6 September 1802 – 30 June 1857) was a French naturalist who made major contributions in many areas, including zoology (including malacology), palae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Healey Dall
William Healey Dall (August 21, 1845 – March 27, 1927) was an American natural history, naturalist, a prominent Malacology, malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska. He described many mollusks of the Pacific Northwest of North America, and was for many years America's preeminent authority on living and fossil mollusks. Dall also made substantial contributions to ornithology, zoology, Biological anthropology, physical and cultural anthropology, oceanography, and paleontology. In addition he carried out meteorological observations in Alaska for the Smithsonian Institution. Biography Early life Dall was born in Boston, Massachusetts. His father Charles Henry Appleton Dall, (1816–86), a Unitarianism, Unitarian minister, moved in 1855 to India as a missionary. His family however stayed in Massachusetts, where Dall's mother Caroline Healey Dall, Caroline Wells Healey was a teacher, transcendentalist, reformer, and pioneer feminist. In 1862, D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Friedrich Röding
Peter Friedrich Röding (17 June 1767 – 8 June 1846) was a German malacologist who lived in Hamburg. Very little is known about this naturalist. Many of Röding's descriptions (often simply a German rendition of the Latin binomial name) are of species which were first named by earlier authors such as Johann Hieronymus Chemnitz, Friedrich Wilhelm Martini and Martin Lister. Röding's references to pre-existing descriptions and figures make these names also valid, since they are unequivocally recognizable, and were (after Röding) subsequently adopted by many later authors. Museum Boltenianum He was the principal author of a 1798 catalogue of an important mollusc collection. The catalogue was entitled ''Museum Boltenianum sive catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens conchylia sive testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia'' and was published in Hamburg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Iredale
Tom Iredale (24 March 1880 – 12 April 1972) was an English-born ornithologist and malacologist who had a long association with Australia, where he lived for most of his life. He was an Autodidacticism, autodidact who never went to university and lacked formal training. This was reflected in his later work; he never revised his manuscripts and never used a typewriter. Early life Iredale was born at Stainburn, Cumbria, Stainburn, Workington in Cumberland, England. He was apprenticed to a pharmacist from 1899 to 1901, and used to go bird watching and egg collecting in the Lake District with fellow chemist William Carruthers Lawrie. New Zealand Iredale emigrated to New Zealand following medical advice, as he had health issues. He may possibly have had tuberculosis. According to a letter to Will Lawrie dated 25 January 1902, he arrived in Wellington, New Zealand in December 1901, and travelled at once on to Lyttelton, New Zealand, Lyttelton and Christchurch. On his second day in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
