Mipus

Mipus
Two shells of Mipus crebrilamellosus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Caenogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Coralliophilinae
Genus: Mipus
Type species
Mipus gyratus Hinds, R.B., 1844

Mipus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[2]

Species

Species within the genus Mipus include:

  • Mipus alis Oliverio, 2008[3]
  • Mipus boucheti Oliverio, 2008[4]
  • Mipus brinkae Kosuge, 1992
  • Mipus coriolisi Kosuge & Oliverio, 2004[5]
  • Mipus crebrilamellosus (Sowerby, G.B. III, 1913)[6]
  • Mipus eugeniae (Bernardi, 1853)
  • Mipus fusiformis (Martens, 1902)
  • Mipus gyratus (Hinds, R.B., 1844)[7]
  • Mipus intermedius Kosuge, 1985
  • Mipus isosceles (Barnard, 1959)
  • Mipus mamimarumai (Kosuge, 1981)
  • Mipus matsumotoi Kosuge, 1985
  • Mipus miyukiae Kosuge, 1985
  • Mipus nodosus (A. Adams, 1854) [8]
  • Mipus rosaceus (E.A. Smith, 1903)
  • Mipus sugitanii Kosuge, 1985
  • Mipus tomlini (van Regteren Altena, 1950)
  • Mipus tonganus Oliverio, 2008[9]
  • Mipus tortuosus (Azuma, 1961)
  • Mipus vicdani (Kosuge, 1980)
Species brought into synonymy
  • Mipus ovoideus Kosuge, 1985 : synonym of Coralliophila ovoidea (Kosuge, 1985)

References

  1. ↑ Gregorio (1885). Bull. Soc. malac. Ital. 11: 28.
  2. ↑ Mipus de Gregorio, 1885.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 10 July 2011.
  3. ↑ Mipus alis Oliverio, 2008.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  4. ↑ Mipus boucheti Oliverio, 2008.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  5. ↑ Mipus coriolisi Kosuge & Oliverio, 2004.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  6. ↑ Mipus crebrilamellosus (G.B. Sowerby III, 1913).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 November 2011.
  7. ↑ Mipus gyratus .  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  8. ↑ Seashells of New South Wales : Mipus nodosus
  9. ↑ Mipus tonganus Oliverio, 2008.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  • Spencer, H.; Marshall. B. (2009). All Mollusca except Opisthobranchia. In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp


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