''Ilanga'' 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 ...
mollusk
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s in the
family
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Solariellidae
Solariellidae is a family (biology), family of small sea snails, marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Trochoidea (superfamily), Trochoidea (according to the Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005), taxonomy of ...
.
Species
Species within the genus ''Ilanga'' include:
* ''
Ilanga agulhaensis''
(Thiele, 1925)
* ''
Ilanga aquamarina''
(Melvill, 1909)
* ''
Ilanga bicarinata''
(A. Adams & Reeve, 1850)
* ''
Ilanga biradiatula''
(Martens, 1902)
* ''
Ilanga boreia''
Vilvens & S. T. Williams, 2020
* ''
Ilanga comes''
Vilvens & S. T. Williams, 2020
* ''
Ilanga corrineae''
Vilvens & S. T. Williams, 2020
* ''
Ilanga cosmia''
Vilvens & S. T. Williams, 2020
* ''
Ilanga discus''
Herbert, 1987
* ''
Ilanga dongshaensis''
Vilvens & S. T. Williams, 2020
* ''
Ilanga euryomphalos''
Vilvens & S. T. Williams, 2020
* ''
Ilanga eurystoma''
Vilvens & S. T. Williams, 2020
* ''
Ilanga fulgens''
(Dall, 1907)
* ''
Ilanga furtiva''
Herbert, 1987
* ''
Ilanga gotoi''
(Poppe, Tagaro & Dekker, 2006)
* ''
Ilanga gratiosa''
(Thiele, 1925)
* ''
Ilanga harrytaylori''
Vilvens & S. T. Williams, 2020
* ''
Ilanga helicoides''
Vilvens & S. T. Williams, 2020
* ''
Ilanga herberti''
Vilvens & S. T. Williams, 2020
* ''
Ilanga humillima''
(Thiele, 1925)
* ''
Ilanga illustris''
(Sturany, 1904)
* ''
Ilanga impolita''
Herbert, 1987
* ''
Ilanga incisura''
(Melvill, 1909)
* ''
Ilanga kilburni''
Herbert, 1987
* ''
Ilanga konos''
(Vilvens, 2009)
* ''
Ilanga laevissima''
(Martens, 1881)
* ''
Ilanga lauensis''
Vilvens & S. T. Williams, 2020
* ''
Ilanga lirellata''
Herbert, 1987
* ''
Ilanga maculicincta''
Herbert, 1987
* ''
Ilanga mesembrine''
Vilvens & S. T. Williams, 2020
* ''
Ilanga millardi''
Herbert, 1987
* ''
Ilanga navakaensis''
(Ladd, 1982)
* ''
Ilanga norfolkensis''
(B. A. Marshall, 1999)
* ''
Ilanga oxeia''
Vilvens & S. T. Williams, 2020
* ''
Ilanga philia''
Vilvens & S. T. Williams, 2020
* ''
Ilanga platypeza''
Herbert, 1987
* ''
Ilanga polita''
Herbert, 1987
* ''
Ilanga polygramma''
Vilvens & S. T. Williams, 2020
* ''
Ilanga rhyssomphala''
Herbert, 1987
* ''
Ilanga stephanophora''
Vilvens & S. T. Williams, 2020
* ''
Ilanga whitechurchi''
(Turton, 1932)
;Species brought into synonymy:
* ''Ilanga carinata''
Verrill, A.E., 1882: synonym of ''
Solariella obscura''
(Couthouy, J.P., 1838)
* ''Ilanga nyssonoides''
"Kuroda, T. MS" Okutani, T.A., 1964 (
nomen nudum
In Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy, a ''nomen nudum'' ('naked name'; plural ''nomina nuda'') is a designation which looks exactly like a scientific name of an organism, and may have originally been intended to be one, but it has not been published ...
): synonym of ''
Solariella tenuicollaris''
Golikov, A.N. & B.I. Sirenko, 1998
* ''Ilanga planula''
Verrill, A.E., 1882: synonym of ''
Solariella obscura''
(Couthouy, J.P., 1838)
* ''Ilanga undata''
(G.B. Sowerby, 1870): synonym of ''Ilanga bicarinata bicarinata''
(A. Adams & Reeve, 1850)
References
Notes
* Herbert, D.G. (1987). ''Revision of the Solariellinae (Mollusca: Prosobranchia: Trochidae) in southern Africa''. ''Annals of the Natal Museum'', 28(2): 283–382.
S. Williams: ''Ilanga''
External links
Vilvens C. & Williams S.T. (2020). New species of Ilanga (Gastropoda: Trochoidea: Solariellidae) from the Indo-West Pacific. Zootaxa. 4732(2): 201-257*
Solariellidae
Gastropod genera
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