''Ceratoxancus'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
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
Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...
s in the
family
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Costellariidae
Costellariidae sometimes called the "ribbed miters" is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic family (biology), family of minute to medium-sized predatory sea snails, marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks.
This family of snails is also sometimes re ...
.
Species
Species within the genus ''Ceratoxancus'' include:
* ''
Ceratoxancus basileus''
Kantor & Bouchet, 1997
* ''
Ceratoxancus elongatus''
Sakurai, 1958
* ''
Ceratoxancus leios''
Kantor & Bouchet, 1997
* ''
Ceratoxancus lorenzi''
Poppe, Tagaro & Sarino, 2012[Poppe, G. T., Tagaro, S. P., Sarino, J. C. (2012). ''A new'' Ceratoxancus ''(Gastropoda: Ptychatractidae), from the Philippines.'' Visay]
(5)
: 29-32.
* ''
Ceratoxancus melichrous''
Kantor & Bouchet, 1997
* ''
Ceratoxancus niveus''
Kantor & Bouchet, 1997
* ''
Ceratoxancus teramachii''
Kuroda, 1952
Classification
Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Turbinelloidea (Superfamily) > Costellariidae (Family) > Ceratoxancus (Genus)
References
* Kantor Yu.I., Bouchet Ph., 1997a. ''The anatomy and systematics of Ceratoxancus, a genus of deep-water Ptychatractinae (Gastropoda: Turbinellidae) with labral spine.'' Veliger, 40(2): 101-120
External links
Fedosov A.E., Puillandre N., Herrmann M., Dgebuadze P. & Bouchet P. (2017). Phylogeny, systematics, and evolution of the family Costellariidae (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 179(3): 541-626
Costellariidae
Gastropod genera
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