''Dolomena'' is a
genus
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of
sea snail
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s,
marine gastropod
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This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusks
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in the
family
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Strombidae
Strombidae, common name, commonly known as the true conchs, is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic family (biology), family of medium-sized to very large sea snails in the superfamily (zoology), superfamily Stromboidea, and the Epifamily Neostromboid ...
, the true conchs.
The name of the genus ''Dolomena'' was originally introduced by
Iredale in 1931, but he did not provide a description.
[1931, Records of the Australian Museum, 18(4): 212, 232] Therefore, he was not accepted as the author of this genus (Art. 13.1 of the
ICZN
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Code)
Species
Species within the genus ''Dolomena'' include:
*''
Dolomena abbotti''
Dekkers & Liverani, 2011
* † ''
Dolomena bruneiensis
''Dolomena'' is a genus of sea snails, marine (ocean), marine gastropoda, gastropod mollusca, mollusks in the family (biology), family Strombidae, the true conchs.
The name of the genus ''Dolomena'' was originally introduced by Tom Iredale, Ired ...
''
Harzhauser, Raven & Landau, 2018
*''
Dolomena columba''
(Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de Lamarck (1 August 1744 – 18 December 1829), often known simply as Lamarck (; ), was a French naturalist, biologist, academic, and soldier. He was an early proponent of the idea that biolo ...
, 1822)
*''
Dolomena dilatata''
( Swainson, 1821)
*''
Dolomena hickeyi''
(Willan, 2000)
*''
Dolomena labiosa''
(Wood
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, 1828)
*''
Dolomena minima''
(Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming o ...
, 1771)
*''
Dolomena plicata''
( Röding, 1798)
*''
Dolomena pulchella''
( Reeve, 1851)
*''
Dolomena swainsoni''
( Reeve, 1851)
*''
Dolomena variabilis''
( Swainson, 1820)
*''
Dolomena wienekei''
Wiersma & D. Monsecour, 2012
;Species brought into synonymy:
* ''Dolomena septima''
(Duclos, 1844): synonym of ''
Margistrombus septimus''
(Duclos, 1844)
*''Dolomena sibbaldi''
( Sowerby II, 1842): synonym of ''Dolomena plicata sibbaldii''
(G. B. Sowerby II, 1842)
References
* Liverani V. (2014) The superfamily Stromboidea. Addenda and corrigenda. In: G.T. Poppe, K. Groh & C. Renker (eds), A conchological iconography. pp. 1–54, pls 131–164. Harxheim: Conchbooks.
Strombidae
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