''Epideira'' 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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Horaiclavidae
Horaiclavidae is a family of predatory 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, taxonomi ...
.
Species
Species within the genus ''Epideira'' include:
* ''
Epideira beachportensis''
Cotton & Godfrey, 1938
* ''
Epideira candida''
(Laseron, 1954)
* ''
Epideira carinata''
(Laseron, 1954)
* ''
Epideira flindersi''
Cotton & Godfrey, 1938
* ''
Epideira gabensis''
Hedley, 1922
* ''
Epideira hedleyi''
(Iredale, 1931)
* ''
Epideira jaffaensis''
(Verco, 1909)
* ''
Epideira multiseriata''
(E. A. Smith, 1877)
* ''
Epideira nodulosa''
(Laseron, 1954)
* ''
Epideira perksi''
(Verco, 1896)
* ''
Epideira philipineri''
(Tenison Woods, 1877)
* ''
Epideira quoyi''
(Desmoulins, 1842)
* ''
Epideira schoutanica''
(May, 1911)
* ''
Epideira sibogae''
(Schepman, 1913)
* ''
Epideira striata''
(Gray, 1826)
* ''
Epideira torquata''
Hedley, 1922
* ''
Epideira tuberculata''
(Laseron, 1954)
;Species brought into synonymy:
* ''Epideira beachportensis''
Cotton & Godfrey, 1938: synonym of ''
Epidirona beachportensis''
(Cotton & Godfrey, 1938)
* ''Epideira flindersi''
Cotton & Godfrey, 1938: synonym of ''
Epidirona flindersi''
(Cotton & Godfrey, 1938)
* ''Epideira torquata''
Hedley, 1922: synonym of ''
Epidirona torquata''
(Hedley, 1922)
References
Hedley C. (1918). A checklist of the marine fauna of New South Wales. Part 1. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales. 51: M1-M120* Li B.Q., Kilburn R.N., & Li X.Z. (2010). ''Report on Crassispirinae Morrison, (Mollusca: Neogastropoda: Turridae) from the China Seas''. Journal of Natural History. 44, 699-740.
External links
*
Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). ''A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda).'' Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77(3): 273-308
Horaiclavidae
Gastropod genera
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