Tylothais
| Tylothais | |
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| Shell of Tylothais aculeata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Subfamily: | Rapaninae |
| Genus: | Houart, 2017 |
| Type species | |
| Purpura savignyi Deshayes, 1844 | |
Tylothais is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks, in the subfamily Rapaninae of the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1][2]
Species
Species within the genus Tylothais include:[1]
- Tylothais aculeata (Deshayes, 1844)
- Tylothais akidotos Houart, 2017
- Tylothais funilata Houart, 2017
- Tylothais inhacaensis Houart, 2017
- Tylothais ovata Houart, 2017
- Tylothais savignyi (Deshayes, 1844)
- Tylothais virgata (Dillwyn, 1817)
References
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- ^ a b MolluscaBase (2018). Tylothais Houart, 2017. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1048564 on 2019-01-06
- ^ Houart R. (2017). Description of eight new species and one new genus of Muricidae (Gastropoda) from the Indo-West Pacific. Novapex. 18(4): 81-103.