''Horaiclavus'' is a
genus of
sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...
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gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusks in the
family Horaiclavidae
Horaiclavidae is a family of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.
In 2011 this family was split off from the family Pseudomelatomidae (formerly the subfamily Crassispirinae McLean, 1971) by Bouchet P., Ka ...
.
''Horaiclavus'' is the
type genus of the family Horaiclavidae.
[Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011). "A new operational classification of the Conoidea". '' Journal of Molluscan Studies'' 77: 273-308. .]
It was previously included within the subfamily
Crassispirinae
Pseudomelatomidae is a family of predatory sea snails, marine gastropods included in the superfamily Conoidea (previously Conacea) and part of the Neogastropoda ( Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
In 1995 Kantor elevated the subfamily Pseudomelatomina ...
, family
Turridae
Turridae is a taxonomic family name for a number of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea. MolluscaBase (2018). Turridae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 (1838). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Specie ...
.
Species
Species within the genus ''Horaiclavus'' include:
* ''
Horaiclavus adenensis''
Bonfitto & Morassi, 2014
* ''
Horaiclavus anaimus''
Sysoev in Fedosov & Kantor, 2008
* ''
Horaiclavus filicinctus''
(Smith E. A., 1882)
* ''
Horaiclavus julieae''
Stahlschmidt, Poppe & Tagaro, 2018
* ''
Horaiclavus kilburni''
Stahlschmidt, 2015
* ''
Horaiclavus madurensis''
(Schepman, 1913)
* ''
Horaiclavus micans''
Kantor, Fedosov & Puillandre, 2018
* ''
Horaiclavus ordinei''
Bonfitto & Morassi, 2014
* ''
Horaiclavus phaeocercus''
Sysoev in Fedosov & Kantor, 2008
* ''
Horaiclavus pulchellus''
Stahlschmidt, Poppe & Tagaro, 2018
* ''
Horaiclavus splendidus''
(Adams A., 1867)
* ''
Horaiclavus stenocyma''
Kuroda, Habe & Oyama, 1971
* ''
Horaiclavus sysoevi''
Smriglio & Mariottini, 2003
;Species brought into synonymy:
* ''Horaiclavus multicostatus''
(Schepman, 1913): synonym of ''
Anguloclavus multicostatus''
(Schepman, 1913)
References
* Kuroda, T.; Habe, T.; Oyama, K. (1971). The sea shells of Sagami Bay. Maruzen Co., Tokyo. xix, 1-741 (Japanese text), 1-489 (English text), 1-51 (Index), pls 1-121
External links
Bonfitto, Antonio, and Mauro Morassi. "Two new Horaiclavus (Horaiclavidae, Conoidea) species from the Indo-Pacific region." Zootaxa 3821.1 (2014): 146-150 Tucker, J.K. 2004 ''Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)''. Zootaxa 682:1-1295ยต
Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77(3): 273-308
Horaiclavidae
Gastropod genera
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