Phrontis (gastropod)
| Phrontis | |
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| Apertural view of a shell of Phrontis pagoda (museum specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Buccinoidea |
| Family: | Nassariidae |
| Subfamily: | Nassariinae |
| Genus: | Phrontis H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 |
| Type species | |
| Buccinum tiarula Kiener, 1841 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Phrontis is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks.[1]
Species
Species within the genus Phrontis include:
- Phrontis alba (Say, 1826)
- Phrontis antillara (d'Orbigny, 1847)
- Phrontis candidissima (C. B. Adams, 1845)
- Phrontis compacta (Angas, 1865)
- Phrontis complanata'' (Powys, 1835)
- Phrontis hotessieriana (d'Orbigny, 1842)
- Phrontis karinae (Nowell-Usticke, 1971)
- Phrontis luteostoma (Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829)
- Phrontis nassiformis (Lesson, 1842)
- Phrontis pagoda (Reeve, 1844)
- Phrontis polygonata (Lamarck, 1822)
- Phrontis versicolor (C. B. Adams, 1852)
- Phrontis vibex (Say, 1822)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Phrontis crassus (Philippi, 1849): synonym of Nassarius semisulcatus (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1848)
- Phrontis nodicostata (A. Adams, 1852): synonym of Nassarius nodicostatus (A. Adams, 1852)
- Phrontis obockensis Jousseaume, 1888: synonym of Nassarius deshayesianus (Issel, 1866)
References
- 1 2 {Marshall, B.; Bouchet, P. (2016). Phrontis H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853. In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=560406 on 2016-05-20
- Galindo L.A., Puillandre N., Utge J., Lozouet P. & Bouchet P. (2016). The phylogeny and systematics of the Nassariidae revisited (Gastropoda, Buccinoidea). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 99: 337-353
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