Biology:Cataegis

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Short description: Genus of gastropods

Cataegis
Temporal range: Early Oligocene[1]-Recent
Cataegis godineauensis.png
fossil Cataegis godineauensis from the late Miocene
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Seguenzioidea
Family: Cataegidae
Genus: Cataegis
McLean & Quinn, 1987
Type species
Cataegis toreuta
McLean & Quinn, 1987

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

Species

Species within the genus Cataegis include:

  • Cataegis celebesensis McLean & Quinn, 1987
  • Cataegis finkli (Petuch, 1987)
  • Cataegis godineauensis Van Winkle, 1919[1]
  • Cataegis leucogranulatus (Fu & Sun, 2006)
  • Cataegis nakagawensis Kaim, R. G. Jenkins & Hikida, 2009
  • Cataegis pleres Vilvens, 2016
  • Cataegis stroggile Vilvens, 2016
  • Cataegis tallorbioides Vilvens, 2016
Species brought into synonymy
  • Cataegis meroglypta McLean & Quinn, 1987:[3] synonym of Kanoia meroglypta (McLean & Quinn, 1987) (original combination)
  • Cataegis toreuta McLean & Quinn, 1987: synonym of Cataegis finkli (Petuch, 1987)

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Kiel S. & Hansen B. T. (2015). "Cenozoic Methane-Seep Faunas of the Caribbean Region". PLoS ONE 10(10): e0140788. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0140788.
  2. Cataegis. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 September 2010.
  3. Cataegis meroglypta McLean & Quinn, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 18 April 2010.
  • McLean J.H. & Quinn J.F. (1987). Cataegis, new genus of three new species from the continental slope (Trochidae: Cataeginae New subfamily). The Nautilus. 101(3): 111-116.
  • Warén A. & Bouchet P. (1993) New records, species, genera, and a new family of gastropods from hydrothermal vents and hydrocarbon seeps. Zoologica Scripta 22: 1-90.

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