Thais (gastropod)
Thais, sometimes known by the common names dog winkles or rock shells, is a genus of medium to large predatory sea snails with an operculum, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the rock shells.[1]
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Species
Species within the genus Thais include:
- Thais aculeata Deshayes & Milne-Edwards, 1844
- Thais ambustulatus Hedley, 1912
- Thais bitubercularis (Lamarck, 1822)
- Thais blanfordi (Melvill, 1893)
- Thais cingulifera (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Thais echinulata (Lamarck, 1822)
- Thais intermedia (Kiener, 1835)
- Thais lacera (Born, 1778)
- Thais mancinella Linnaeus
- Thais sacellum (Gmelin, 1791)
- Thais savignyi (Deshayes, 1844)
- Thais tricolorata Bozzetti, 2010
- Thais wutingi Tan, 1997
- Subgenus Thais (Mancinella) Link, 1807
- Thais alouina (Röding, 1798)
- Thais echinata (Blainville, 1832)
- Thais grossa Houart, 2001
- Thais herberti Houart, 1998
- Thais lata (Kuroda, 1931)
- Thais marmorata (Pease, 1865)
- Thais siro Kuroda, 1931
- Subgenus Thais (Neorapana) Cooke, 1918
- Subgenus Thais (Thais) Röding, 1798
- Thais bimaculata (Jonas, 1845)
- Thais callaoensis (Gray, 1828)
- Thais nodosa (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Thais speciosa (Valenciennes, 1832)
- Thais triangularis (Blainville, 1832)
- Subgenus Thais (Thaisella) Clench, 1947
- Thais callifera (Lamarck, 1822)
- Thais coronata (Lamarck, 1816)
- Thais dubia (Schepman, 1922)
- Thais gradata (Jonas, 1846)
- Thais javanica (Philippi, 1848)
- Thais jubilaea Tan & Sigurdsson, 1990[2]
- Thais keluo Tan & Liu, 2001
- Thais kiosquiformis (Duclos, 1832)
- Thais langi Clench & Turner, 1948
- Thais luteostoma Holton, 1803
- Thais malayensis Tan & Sigurdsson, 1996
- Thais mariae Morettes, 1954
- Thais pinangensis Tan & Sigurdsson, 1996
- Thais rufotincta Tan & Sigurdsson, 1996
- Thais tissoti (Petit, 1852)
- Thais deltoidea (Lamarck, 1822) - deltoid rocksnail
- Thais tuberosa (Röding, 1798)
- Thais tumulosa (Reeve, 1846)
- Thais virgata (Dillwyn, 1817)
- Subgenus Thais (Vasula) Mörch, 1860
- Thais melones (Duclos, 1832)
Species also mentioned in ITIS, the Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database (OBIS)[3] and in the Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca (Malacolog)[4]
- Thais clavigera Köster, 1858
- Thais chocolata (Duclos, 1832) - Locate
- Thais delessertiana (D'Orbigny, 1841)
- Thais lamellosa
- Thais orbita (Gmelin, 1791) - White rock shell
- Thais rustica (Lamarck, 1822) Rustic rocksnail
- Thais savignyi (Deshayes, 1844)
- Thais trinitatensis (Guppy, 1869)
- Thais undata Lamarck
- Thais woodwardi (Roxo)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Thais aperta Blainville, 1832: synonym of Drupa aperta (Blainville, 1832)
- Thais bronni (Dunker, 1860): synonym of Reishia bronni (Dunker, 1860)
- Thais carinifera: synonym of Thais lacera (Born, 1778)
- Thais emarginata (Deshayes, 1839): synonym of Nucella emarginata (Deshayes, 1839)
- Thais gemmulata: synonym of Thais (Mancinella) alouina (Röding, 1798)
- Thais grandis (Sowerby, 1835): synonym of Neorapana grandis (Sowerby I, 1835)
- Thais haemastoma (Linnaeus, 1758): synonym of Stramonita haemastoma (Linnaeus, 1767)
- Thais hippocastanum (Linnaeus, 1758): synonym of Thais (Thalessa) virgata (Dillwyn, 1817)
- Thais lapillus Linnaeus, 1758 - the dog whelk: synonym of Nucella lapillus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Thais muricata (Broderip, 1832): synonym of Neorapana muricata (Broderip, 1832)
- Thais pica Blainville: synonym of Thais (Thalessa) tuberosa (Röding, 1798)
- Thais stellata Röding, 1798: synonym of Stramonita haemastoma (Linnaeus, 1767)
- Thais tuberculata (Sowerby, 1835): synonym of Neorapana tuberculata (Sowerby I, 1835)
References
- Houart, R.; Gofas, S. (2010). Thais Röding, 1798. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138207 on 2011-01-10
- Tan K. S. & Sigurdsson J. B. (1990). "A new species of Thais (Gastropoda: Muricidae) from Singapore and Peninsular Malaysia". The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 38(2): 205-211. PDF Archived 2 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine.
- OBIS : Thais; accessed : 10 January 2011
- Malacolog : Thais; accessed : 10 January 2011]
- Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp
- Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a Hedley bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
Further reading
- R. Tucker Abbott, Percy A. Morris, Roger Tory Peterson, (1995), A Field Guide to Shells of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and the West Indies Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, New York (Peterson Field Guide Series)
- Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. (1962) Marine Molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne University Press & The National Museum of Victoria
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