Swainsonia

Swainsonia
Swainsonia olivaeformis shell
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Mitridae
Genus: Swainsonia
H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853[1]
Type species
Mitra fissurata Lamarck, 1811
Synonyms
  • Mitrella Swainson, 1831 (invalid: junior homonym of Mitrella Risso, 1826 [Columbellidae]; Swainsonia is a replacement name)
  • Scabricola (Swainsonia) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853

Swainsonia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mitridae.[2]

Species

Species within the genus Swainsonia include:

Species brought into synonymy
  • Swainsonia bicolor (Swainson, 1824) : synonym of Imbricaria bicolor (Swainson, 1824)
  • Swainsonia mariae (A. Adams, 1853) : synonym of Swainsonia ocellata f. mariae (A. Adams, 1853) : synonym of Swainsonia ocellata (Swainson, 1831)
  • Swainsonia millepunctata (Schepman, 1911) : synonym of Swainsonia schepmani (Salisbury & Guillot de Suduiraut, 2003)

References

  1. ↑ Adams (1853). Gen. Moll. 1: 180.
  2. ↑ Swainsonia .  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 04/24/10.
  3. ↑ Swainsonia fissurata Lamarck.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 April 2010.
  4. ↑ Swainsonia zephyra Recluz.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 April 2010.
  • Cernohorsky W. O. (1991). The Mitridae of the world (Part 2). Monographs of Marine Mollusca 4.


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