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Taranis (gastropod)
''Taranis '' is a genus of sea snails, marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks in the family (biology), family Raphitomidae. This genus was formerly placed in subfamily Borsoniinae, family Turridae in Vaught (1989). The name Taranis is the Latinised name of the Gallic thunder god Taran. It is therefore a masculine name. Description The species in this genus are characterized by the absence of a radula together with the loss or reduction of a number of other features of foregut anatomy (as described by Kantor & Sysoev (1989) ).KANTOR, Y. I. & SYSOEV, A. V. 1989. The morphology of toxoglossan gastropods lacking a radula, with a description of a new species and genus of Turridae. J. Moll. Stud. 55 (4): 537-549. Species Species within the genus ''Taranis '' include: * ''Taranis adenensis'' Morassi & Bonfitto, 2013 * † ''Taranis aliena'' (Marwick, 1965) * ''Taranis allo'' (Lamy, 1934) * ''Taranis benthicola'' (Dell, 1956) * ''Taranis borealis'' Bouchet & Warén, 1980 * † ''Ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family (taxonomy), family. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus. :E.g. ''Panthera leo'' (lion) and ''Panthera onca'' (jaguar) are two species within the genus ''Panthera''. ''Panthera'' is a genus within the family Felidae. The composition of a genus is determined by taxonomy (biology), taxonomists. The standards for genus classification are not strictly codified, so different authorities often produce different classifications for genera. There are some general practices used, however, including the idea that a newly defined genus should fulfill these three criteria to be descriptively useful: # monophyly – all descendants ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taranis Imporcata
''Taranis imporcata'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae. Description The length of the shell attains 6 mm, its diameter 3 mm. Distribution This marine species is endemic to New Zealand and occurs off Taiaroa Heads, eastern Otago Otago (, ; mi, Ōtākou ) is a region of New Zealand located in the southern half of the South Island administered by the Otago Regional Council. It has an area of approximately , making it the country's second largest local government reg ... at a depth of 550 metres References * Dell R.K. 1962 Additional archibenthal Mollusca from New Zealand. Records of the Dominion Museum, 4 (6) : 67-76. * Powell, A.W.B. 1979 ''New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells'', Collins, Auckland * Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). ''Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca''. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taranis Ticaonica
''Taranis ticaonica'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae. Description The length of the shell attains 2.5 mm. Distribution This marine species occurs off the Philippines The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no), * bik, Republika kan Filipinas * ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas * cbk, República de Filipinas * hil, Republ ... and the Central-Western Pacific. They usually live in Demersal, Tropical areas. References * Powell, A.W.B. 1967. The family Turridae in the Indo-Pacific. Part 1a. The Turrinae concluded. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 1(7): 409-443, pls 298-317 External links * Gastropods.com: ''Taranis ticaonica'' ticaonica Gastropods described in 1967 {{Raphitomidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taranis Tanata
''Taranis tanata'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Taranis tanata Figueira & Absalão, 2010. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=557260 on 2020-02-23 Description The length of the shell attains . Distribution This marine species is endemic to Southeast Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area .... References External links Figueira, R. M. A.; Absalão, R. S. (2010). ''Deep-water Mangeliinae, Taraninae and Clathurellinae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Conoidea: Turridae) from the Campos Basin, southeast Brazil''. Scientia Marina. 74(4): 731-743 tanata Gastropods described in 2010 {{Raphitomidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taranis Spirulata
''Taranis spirulata'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae. Description The length of the shell attains 5.5 mm, its diameter 2.2 mm. Distribution This marine species is endemic to New Zealand and occurs off Taiaroa Heads, eastern Otago Otago (, ; mi, Ōtākou ) is a region of New Zealand located in the southern half of the South Island administered by the Otago Regional Council. It has an area of approximately , making it the country's second largest local government reg ..., at a depth of 550 metres References * Dell R.K. 1962 ''Additional archibenthal Mollusca from New Zealand''. Records of the Dominion Museum, 4 (6) : 67-76. * Powell, A.W.B. 1979 ''New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells'', Collins, Auckland * Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). ''Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca''. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Ani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taranis Rhytismeis
''Taranis rhytismeis'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae. Description The length of the shell attains 3 mm, its diameter 1.5 mm. The wrinkled sculpture and strong median peripheral angulation distinguish this small white species. Only a specimen or two have been found in 1910. Distribution This marine species occurs in the Gulf of Oman The Gulf of Oman or Sea of Oman ( ar, خليج عمان ''khalīj ʿumān''; fa, دریای عمان ''daryâ-ye omân''), also known as Gulf of Makran or Sea of Makran ( ar, خلیج مکران ''khalīj makrān''; fa, دریای مکرا .... References External links * J.C. Melvill (1910) Descriptions of Twenty-nine Species of Marine Mollusca from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and North Arabian Sea; The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology being a continuation of the Annals combined with Loudon and Charlesworth's Magazine of Natural History; 8th s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taranis Percarinata
''Taranis percarinata'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae. Description The length of the shell attains 2.2 mm. Distribution This marine species was found off Palawan Island, the Philippines The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no), * bik, Republika kan Filipinas * ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas * cbk, República de Filipinas * hil, Republ ... at a depth of 7 m. References * Powell, A.W.B. 1967. ''The family Turridae in the Indo-Pacific. Part 1a. The Turrinae concluded.'' Indo-Pacific Mollusca 1(7): 409-443, pls 298-317 External links * gastropods.com: Taranis ''percarinata'' percarinata Gastropods described in 1967 {{Raphitomidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taranis Panope
''Taranis panope'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae. Description The length of the shell attains 4.5 mm, its diameter 2.3 mm. (Original description) The small shell contains about six whorls including the blunt (defective) protoconch. They are white with a pale olivaceous periostracum, short and stumpy. The earlier whorls show two strong peripheral keels and a thread upon which the suture is laid. The body whorl shows a cord at the suture and on the other side of the anal fasciole about five elevated keels with subequal interspaces, more adjacent on the base with about as many more smaller and closer threads on the anterior region. The suture is appressed and obscure. The anal fasciole is concave, not spirally striated The axial sculpture consists of rather close sharp striae which cut the spirals. The aperture is narrow. The anal sulcus is deep and rounded. The outer lip is greatly produced, thin and smooth within. The inner lip s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taranis Nexilis
''Taranis nexilis'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Taranis nexilis (Hutton, 1885). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=578691 on 2020-02-22 ;Subspecies: * ''Taranis nexilis bicarinata'' (Suter, 1915) * ''Taranis nexilis recens'' (C. A. Fleming, 1948) Description The length of the shell attains 2 mm. (Original description) The minute, fusiform shell is cancellated. It contains six whorls with two polished whorls in the protoconch. The spire-whorls show a prominent spiral keel, crossed by rather oblique and rather distant spiral threads, forming an obtuse angle on the keel. The suture is margined. The body whorl contains 8 or 9 spiral ribs, the first and third larger than the others. The others after the sixth come very close together on the siphonal canal. These are crossed by rather distant longitudinal lines which f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taranis Moerchii
''Taranis moerchii'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae. Description The length of the shell varies between 2 mm and 4 mm. The two specimens from station 2077, in 1255 fathoms, are somewhat stouter than those previously obtained, and have the principal carina, forming the shoulder, larger and more prominent than usual, but it bears only very minute tubercles, corresponding to the very fine and close riblets which cross the wide and abruptly sloping subsutural band obliquely, and are about twice as numerous and much finer than in the ordinary variety. On the body whorl there are about six prominent, distant, revolving cinguli below the shoulder, besides some faint ones on the base of the siphonal canal. The space between the uppermost of these and the shoulder-carina is greater than usual. The lines of growth are much finer than in the ordinary form and do not take the appearance of riblets on the body whorl, nor do they re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taranis Miranda
''Taranis miranda'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae. Description The length of the shell attains 3.8 mm, its diameter 1.7 mm. Distribution This marine species is endemic to South Africa and occurs off the Agulhas Bank The Agulhas Bank (, from Portuguese for Cape Agulhas, ''Cabo das Agulhas'', "Cape of Needles") is a broad, shallow part of the southern African continental shelf which extends up to south of Cape Agulhas before falling steeply to the abyssal pl ..., from off Cape Agulhas to off Cape Recife, at depths of 80–125 m. References External links * R. N. Kilburn, Turridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 5. Subfamily Taraninae; Ann. Natal Mus. Vol. 32 Pages 325-339 Pietermaritzburg October. 1991 Endemic molluscs of South Africa miranda Gastropods described in 1925 {{Raphitomidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taranis Mayi
''Taranis mayi'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae. Description The length of the shell attains 4.6 mm, its diameter 2.4 mm. (Original description) The thin, oval, white shell consists of four whorls besides a brown protoconch of 2 whorls, which are convex, apparently smooth, but under the microscope very finely spirally lirate and interstitially punctate. The spire-whorls are convex medially sharply angulate with a cord, base contracted, and forming a moderately long siphonal canal, which is slightly curved to the left. The sutures are distinct and finely canaliculate. The aperture is obliquely oval. The outer lip is thin, simple, ridged outside by the spirals, with an obtuse shallow, wide triangular sinus at the angulation. Sculpture : above the angle are three spirals in each whorl, and one below it. In the body whorl are eighteen, subdistant just below the angle, crowded towards the siphonal canal. Very fine axials, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
