Menathais is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks, in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1][2]
| Menathais | |
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| Shell of Menathais tuberosa (syntype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Subfamily: | Rapaninae |
| Genus: | Menathais Iredale, 1937 |
| Type species | |
| Purpura pica Blainville, 1832 | |
Species
editSpecies within the genus Menathais include:[1]
- Menathais bimaculata (Jonas, 1845)
- Menathais intermedia (Kiener, 1836)
- Menathais tuberosa (Röding, 1798)
- † Menathais viciani Kovács, 2018
References
edit- ^ a b MolluscaBase (2018). Menathais Iredale, 1937. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=395261 on 2019-01-06
- ^ Claremont M., Vermeij G.J., Williams S.T. & Reid D.G. (2013) Global phylogeny and new classification of the Rapaninae (Gastropoda: Muricidae), dominant molluscan predators on tropical rocky seashores. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 66: 91–102. [Published online 28 September 2012; Code-compliant paper version published January 2013]
External links
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