Kanamarua

Kanamarua
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Buccinoidea
Family: Buccinidae
Genus: Kanamarua
Kuroda, 1951
Type species
Colus adonis Dall, 1919

Kanamarua is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.[1]

Species

Species within the genus Kanamarua include:

  • Kanamarua adonis (Dall, 1919)
  • Kanamarua boswellae (Kilburn, 1975)
  • Kanamarua francroberti Fraussen & Lamy, 2008[2]
  • Kanamarua hyatinthus Shikama, 1973
  • Kanamarua magnifica Fraussen & Chino, 2012[3]
  • Kanamarua narcissisma Fraussen & Lamy, 2008[4]
  • Kanamarua somalica (Bozzetti, 1993)
  • Kanamarua tazimai Kuroda, 1951
Species brought into synonymy
  • Kanamarua rehderi Kilburn, 1977: synonym of Kanamarua hyatinthus Shikama, 1973

References

  1. ↑ Kanamarua Kuroda, 1951.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 April 2012.
  2. ↑ Kanamarua francroberti Fraussen & Lamy, 2008.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 April 2010.
  3. ↑ Fraussen K., Chino M. (2012). Kanamarua magnifica n. sp. (Gastropoda: Columbrariidae), a large and colorful species from the southern Philippines. Visaya 3 (5): 37-40.
  4. ↑ Kanamarua narcissisma Fraussen & Lamy, 2008.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 April 2010.
  • Bouchet P. & Warén A. (1986 ["1985"]) Mollusca Gastropoda: Taxonomical notes on tropical deep water Buccinidae with descriptions of new taxa. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, A, 133: 457-517.
  • Fraussen K. & Lamy D. (2008). Revision of the genus Kanamarua Kuroda, 1951 (Gastropoda: Colubrariidae) with the description of two new species. Novapex 9(4): 129-140


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