Angaria (gastropod)

Angaria
Angaria vicdani
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Angarioidea
Family: Angariidae
John Edward Gray, 1857
Genus: Angaria
Röding, 1798
Type species
Turbo delphinus
Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms [1]
  • Angarina Bayle, 1878
  • Angarus Gray, 1857
  • Cochlus Humphrey, 1779
  • Delphinula Lamarck, 1804
  • Delphinulopsis Wright, 1878
  • Delphinulus Montfort, 1810
  • Praxidice Rafinesque, 1815
  • Scalator Gistel, 1848

Angaria is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Angariidae.[1] Angaria is the only genus in the family Angariidae.

Taxonomy

According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005, Angaria belongs in the subfamily Angariinae, within the family Turbinidae. Williams et al. (2008) moved Angaria to the family Angariidae within the newly created superfamily Angarioidea.[2]

Species

Species in the genus Angaria include:

Species brought into synonymy

References

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  1. 1 2 3 Philippe Bouchet & Serge Gofas (2013). "Angaria Röding, 1798". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
  2. Williams S. T., Karube S. & Ozawa T. (September 2008) "Molecular systematics of Vetigastropoda: Trochidae, Turbinidae and Trochoidea redefined". Zoologica Scripta 37(5): 483-506. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2008.00341.x
  3. Günther, R. (2007). "Angaria carmencita n. sp. - a new species of Angariidae from Western Australia (Mollusca:Gastropoda)" (PDF). Club Conchylia Informationen 38 (3): 47–53.
  4. Edwin C. Allison, Middle Cretaceous Gastropoda from Punta China, Baja California, Mexico, Journal of Paleontology > Vol. 29, No. 3, May, 1955, p. 412
  5. Dekker, H. (2006). "Description of a new species of Angaria from Vietnam". Miscellanea Malacologica (Nederlands: Ciuvendrecht) 1 (6): 103–107.
  6. F. E. Eames, A Contribution to the Study of the Eocene in Western Pakistan and Western India C. The Description of the Scaphopoda and Gastropoda from Standard Sections in the Rakhi Nala and Zinda Pir Areas of the Western Punjab and in the Kohat District, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, Vol. 236, No. 631, Jan. 2, 1952, p. 8-9
  7. Monsecour & Monsecour. (2006). Visaya 1(6): 9-16.

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